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

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

Tatsuo Miyajima shares a philosophical appreciation for life with the latest human technologies.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

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

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.