Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.

A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.

A concrete mushroom that divided Stockholm residents for nearly a century.

The final resting place of the man whose name has become synonymous with greatness.

Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

The eccentric and colorful pavilions of Tower Grove park are a beloved and overlooked symbol. 

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.