A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

The mysterious remains of a martyred teenage saint are venerated inside a small country chapel.

Thanks to an acoustic anomaly, this unassuming stone bench has heard one hundred years of secrets.

An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.

This remarkable museum sprung from one of the most important prehistoric archaeological sites in the world.

This Gothic church houses ornate royal tombs and a magnificent gilded altarpiece.

The most elaborate of 12 medieval arched doorways to the old city of Burgos.

A delightful museum devoted to the history of books.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.