Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

A small site dedicated to the memory of a local leader and the search for peace.

The 17th-century hacienda where Simón Bolívar spent his last days before dying from tuberculosis.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

This bronze boy sits on one of Capri's rocky cliffs, waving at the passing boats.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

These red marks, seemingly placed at random, are in fact not.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The first outlet of Canada's biggest fast-food franchise has been slinging doughnuts since 1964.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.