No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This Transylvanian church has changed its denomination four times.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

The final resting place of the songwriter who penned “Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.