A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

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

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

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.