Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

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The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

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

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.