An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

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

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

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

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.