This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.