Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

Life-size figures portray depot attendants, train crew, and passengers frozen in time at the oldest railroad station in Arkansas.

A museum entirely dedicated to Bergamo’s tradition of puppetry.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

A stone, covered in metal, commemorating an event that happened somewhere else a thousand years ago.

This grassy, tree-lined hill shares a name with the much-loved novel that it inspired.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

The UK's oldest theme park slowly slips away.

The Last Home of an Executed King.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A town pays homage to its namesake.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

The oldest military monument in the United States.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."