This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

The saddest little diner in New York.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.