A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

Stop by to view a fleet of handmade kayaks, all modeled on traditional Arctic hunting vessels.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

This crocodile-infested East Timor reservoir is also home to a spectacular half-sunken forest.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

This stretch of Canadian road was named after a nickname that stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.