A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

These mythological giants take time out of their busy day guarding a Victorian market to let you know what time it is.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

Climb a steep hill in 90 seconds on the second-oldest urban subway in the world.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This ancient structure appears Roman, but was constructed during the 16th century and was utilized until 1911.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

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