A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

A local prank turned town icon.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.