An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.