If you don't look closely, you might mistake this sculpture for just another passenger waiting at the airport.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Inspired by the famous sculptures on Easter Island, this head serves as a popular meeting spot by Shibuya Station.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.