A remarkable range of flora and fauna are represented in this Dominican nature preserve.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

Meet 'Big Josh,' the 20-foot-tall muffler man.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Berlin's old airport.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

The remains of this misplaced church were moved here stone by stone.