Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

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.