An LED art installation composed of 600 poles wrapped in kimono fabric.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history, this memorial has faced its fair share of backlash.

A seemingly desolate park that belongs to two countries actually supports all kinds of wildlife.