A private home museum with a collection of over 5,000 Peranakan artifacts.

Dedicated to a local cow who escaped a slaughterhouse and became an international symbol of peace.

Order your phở stir-fried, sans soup.

A collection of nostalgic items from the Showa era with an exhibit on the local ghost story of the Snow Woman.

This ferry carries passengers across the Rhine propelled by no engine or paddles but by the river's current.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

This 25-foot-tall statue was built as a protest to a property dispute.

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

The story behind this beloved toy—named for Theodore Roosevelt and owned by his grandson—is more complicated than you might guess.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

Honoring combatants from Portsmouth who served in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."