Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Built in 1945, this historic train station has a new lease on life with its baggage area serving as an event space.

Hidden within an idyllic suburban garden is a memorial dedicated to the victims of a terrifying spree of killings committed on U.S. soil.