The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

This working replica of the 'Friends' coffee shop is more accurate to the show than the set itself.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

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

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.