The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

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

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

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.