Lisbon, Portugal
National Coach Museum
An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.
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São Miguel, Portugal
Violet Volcanic Tea
When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.
Lisbon, Portugal
History of Lisbon Mural
Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.
Sintra, Portugal
Pena National Palace
This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.
Bristol, England
Vale Street
England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.
Hamburg, Germany
Beatles-Platz (Beatles Square)
This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.
Hamburg, Germany
Miniatur Wunderland
Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.
New York, New York
The American Merchant Mariner's Memorial
Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.
New York, New York
West Terrace at the Cloisters
This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.
New York, New York
New York Herald Monument
There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.
New York, New York
Second Avenue Subway Art
Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.
New York, New York
Collyer Brothers Park
Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.
Brooklyn, New York
Staten Island's Lost Subway Tunnel
An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.
New York, New York
Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
New York, New York
The Brown Building
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Lighthouse
A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
New York, New York
Paley Park
A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.
New York, New York
Wall Street Bombing Scars
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
New York, New York
Irish Hunger Memorial
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.
New York, New York
'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
New York, New York
The Manhattan Well Murder
A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.
New York, New York
Statue of Liberty's Original Torch
Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.
New York, New York
High Bridge
The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.
