The hometown of a beloved manga artist created a treasure hunt for his popular ghostly characters.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

This two-legged horse statue celebrates a beloved cartoonist and his quirky characters.

A monument to the legacy of the man who created Spongebob Squarepants at the school where his passion for art and marine biology began.

An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

This statue in Talcott, West Virginia, is an enduring symbol of American grit.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

It may seem a little out of place in a tiny village, but the inspiring story of its creation made headlines.

A tribute to one of the most memorable characters from the Transformers movie series.

Everyone's favorite clay duo immortalized in bronze.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

A beautiful riverside mansion where the intellectual life of early-20th-century Argentina flourished.

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.

"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

The birthplace of the first author to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and poetry.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.