Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

This sculpture commemorates Edinburgh's sister city and their respective celebrity dogs.

The Scottish Reformation leader's grave was paved over and is now a parking lot.

This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

The classic Atari game's iconic aliens have invaded downtown San Diego.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

This representation of Lord Vishnu is the largest stone sculpture in Nepal.

A little-known mural reveals the hydrological reason for Atlanta's founding in this location.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'