Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

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 cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

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.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.