Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Wander among free-roaming storks at the sanctuary that helped save them from local extinction.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.