Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

Russian spa's bronze monument to enemas.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.

A simple stone remembers one of the most menacing horses in the Swedish military.

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.

Inside this church, a monument honors the first burial site of the famed philosopher.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.