Andrew Carnegie funded the building of almost 3,000 libraries across the world, this was the first.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

The final resting place of one of the most important figures in the world of tea.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

A striking glass tribute to two sisters who suffered during Scotland's "Killing Time."

Hidden in this modern shopping center is a relic of 16th-century capital punishment.

This figure of a local merchant is said to reanimate and do a dance during Hogmanay.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.

Romania's "Red Ravine" is a little-known natural wonder that bears a resemblance to the Grand Canyon.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

Arizona's first government hub is a rustic cabin now preserved as part of a historical museum.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.