This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.