The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

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

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

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

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

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

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.