The Painted Ladies of Ontario aren’t your average beach homes.

The golden age of flight captured in a downtown airport.

The beginning of the historic Iditarod Trail connecting the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome.

This steamed rice crepe specialist has been rolling up its namesake dish for over 30 years.

A 200-year-old live oak on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.

The second largest monolith in the world was once betrayed by its lover, Ben Aicha.

Iconic figures in concrete and steel in the High Plains of Texas.

The arch marks the beginning of the road for northbound travelers.

This time-honored eatery near Hoàn Kiếm Lake serves the classic pairing of rice vermicelli soup and savory sticky rice.

The site of a prehistoric settlement spanning millennia, complete with a reconstructed timber circle.

This archipelago homestead-turned-museum has remained the same since its last resident, born in 1897, died in 1973.

This small village museum contains the schoolboy scratchings of William Wordsworth.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

The raised stones in the middle of this road through Culross are relics of a 17th-century class divide.

This municipal sundial has been keeping time along Tacoma's Commencement Bay since 1978.

This building played host to some of the most influential minds of the Industrial Revolution and now serves as a reminder of the influence of Northern coalfields.

The only Roman honorific column in Istanbul.

During the renovation of this bas-relief, the constructors added one unusual element.

Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.

An 18th-century religious argument etched into stone.

The last gas-lit cinema in the United Kingdom, and perhaps the world.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

This Swiss cemetery is reserved for people who died in climbing accidents.

At 11,500 feet in elevation, there is no toilet in the state closer to the sky than this one.