Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Berlin's old airport.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

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

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Not actually a shop, but one fan's passionate show of support for a rival county's Gaelic football team.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.