Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

Looking strangely like Rome's Colosseum, this unfinished tower has dominated the skyline for over 100 years.