A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

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

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

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.