On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This wooden chair dates possibly back to the 15th century, and commemorates a local legend.

The first all glass and steel residence in the United States.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The middle finger of modernity.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.