This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

A brick building in Kathmandu's Durbar Square is home to Nepal's most prominent living goddess.

This historic square in Nepal is home to temples dating back to the third century.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

Built in 1931, this small passageway is believed to be the first modern skyway.

This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.

This multisensory alley has the ability to remind bustling citygoers to stop and smell the roses.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.