This park boasts a unusual collection of curious monuments from around the world, from Micronesia to Antarctica.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

A 14th-century Serbian Orthodox church that was once converted into a mosque under the much-disfavored Ottoman Empire.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

Kwanu'sila the Thunderbird has been silently watching over Chicago for more than 100 years (kind of).

This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

An unfinished Serbian Orthodox church with 1,389 golden crosses planned to represent the Battle of Kosovo.

A symbol of hope, survival, and national character, especially after it rose phoenix like from the flames.

The world's largest otter started his life as a high school shop project.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

One of the oldest art supply stores in the United States.

These abundant, over-the-top monuments are so widely scattered that they define the entire compact capital cityscape, often leading to jokes about whether there are more statues than residents.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

A monument to the grand synagogue that stood in this space before Nazis burned it down.

A statue built to honor the elite soldiers who fought for Latvia during World War I.

With a design inspired by traditional Latvian textiles, this monument honors the Latvian people who suffered under Soviet occupation.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

The beginning of the historic Iditarod Trail connecting the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome.

A small museum built by a family that survived the Siege of Sarajevo.

The largest public library in the United Kingdom was designed to reflect the industrial and artistic history of the city where it stands.

A collection of historic buildings in central Birmingham blend seamlessly into the cityscape but have an interesting story to tell.

Along the side of the road on a small Japanese island is an extensive garden of uniquely designed Shisa statues.