The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

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

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

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.