"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.