Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

The only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

This now abandoned arch bridge was constructed during the Great Depression.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.