A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

In one of the smallest countries in the world stands an original Salvador Dalí sculpture.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Sample some of Iberia’s best tinned fish at this century-old cannery just north of Porto.

The world's oldest continuously operating record shop has been in Cardiff since 1894.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

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

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.