The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Yo, Adrian!

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.