This stone obelisk commemorates the discovery of the world's largest gold nugget.

The unexpected mascot of Shetland's capital.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A monument to a 19th-century Irish woman whose murder inspired several literary works.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

This bronze statue of Martin Luther King was placed in the park without permission.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

Also known as "Robin Hood's tree," this tree became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down in an act of vandalism.

Sporting Brutalist architecture, this school is hidden amid a quiet suburban neighborhood.

The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

This castle resides in a valley known for immense bloodshed during the Middle Ages.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.