Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

One of Cincinnati's greatest fighters once trained at a now defunct gym in this Over-The-Rhine neighborhood.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.