With a bundle of matches in one hand and a mobile phone in the other, this sculpture is a modern take on Hans Christian Andersen's poignant fairy tale.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

This saucy statue once caused outrage among locals.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Positioned outside a church, this sinister folkloric figure incited protests in both 1902 and 2002.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

These whimsical rabbit figures are not as innocent as they might look.

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

A walk along this white sand beach creates a symphony.

Once believed to be a sacred Roman legionary symbol, this bronze figure inspired the 1954 novel 'The Eagle of the Ninth.'

This rowhouse doubles as one of the most photographed spots in the nation's capital.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

A rare specimen of the ancient piggy bank of Java resides in one of the unassuming corners of the Ashmolean.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

A sculpture of a woman so beautiful she got arrested for it.

Curated with the cooperation of the passengers and their families, this museum tells the story of the 29 victims and 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.

Walk down these stairs to get an underwater view of Switzerland's Lake Zug.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.