This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

This statue in Plaza San Francisco commemorates a beloved figure from 1950s Havana.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

This hidden treasure provides a charming access point along the south side of Baker Park.

This bridge over D.C.'s Rock Creek Park is sometimes called the "Buffalo Bridge" because of its four buffalo sculptures, which were cast from a single piece of bronze.

Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.