The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.