A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

This poignant tribute to the White Rose movement showcases artifacts related to the heroic anti-Nazi struggle.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A stone pillar marking the location of the westernmost battle of the American Civil War only honors one side of the conflict.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

The longest-serving U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in this humble cabin.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

This museum located in the "Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World," chronicles the history of cob pipe.

From burial ground bocce ball court.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.