Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Since 1995, two red-painted metal figures have guarded the entrance to the Northern Ballet.

Winner of the Leeds Award for Architecture and the Environment.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.