Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.