This mountainside mural of a person carrying a torch was created for the 1994 Winter Olympics.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Largest cave system in Africa.

A 19th-century relic of timekeeping.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

These sea caves are the source of Xigia Beach's distinct aroma.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This public art is inspired by a local Aboriginal creation story.

A colorful sculpture of an Australian symbol patrols an otherwise ordinary traffic island.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.