To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A darkly erotic open-air statuary in Catalonia.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.