The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Hanging over one of Japan's "hidden valleys," these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

World's largest Christmas store.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.