Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

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

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The spur that wouldn’t die.

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

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

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

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

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

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.