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

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

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