London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.

A giant statue of the Buddhist goddess of mercy watches over the town of Ōfuna.

Japan's first train station is also the site of Godzilla's first destructive visit to the nation.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

Erected in memory of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was born close to this spot, this statue commemorates the author and his famous detective.

An exceptional engineering feat that facilitates the migration of salmon upstream during their breeding season.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

Lines on the pillar of Heidelberg's Karl-Theodor Bridge record the dramatic heights of past floods.

The last place in Bahrain where you can get a custom-made dhow.

These purpose-built WWII air raid shelters, which run half a kilometer under the town of Mellieħa, are among the longest in Malta.

In one of the smallest countries in the world stands an original Salvador Dalí sculpture.

The southernmost postal office in South America.

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.

These bronze horses on the gates of the Royal Palace of Naples were a gift from a Russian tsar.

This bunny-eared Moses represents an attempted compromise between two biblical interpretations.

Smack-dab in Campania’s volcanic fields, this scenic lake was once thought to be the gate of hell.

Third time's a charm, or in this case, two testicles are.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

An old Dutch lightvessel is now stuck in a dock near the mouth of the Suriname River.

This "witch's market" is filled with Amazonian herbs, remedies, and the occasional libido-strengthening tincture.

The world's widest single drop waterfall, and the two men who legend says went over its edge in a boat.

A monument to Cuffy, a rebellious enslaved person who became a national hero in Guyana.

Georgetown’s most impressive building is also one of the tallest wooden churches in the world.

Though dynamited and defaced, the statue still stands outside the law courts in Georgetown, Guyana.