A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A set of medieval stained-glass windows tell the gruesome story of a Viking siege.

This operational mill has survived centuries of destruction and construction.

A defensive structure built during the Hundred Years War has remained useful in one way or another for nearly 700 years.

Paul McCartney, Joy Division, and many others created era-defining music at this former recording studio.

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

This trio of bronze giants celebrate the influential trip to Britain that led to Botswana's independence.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The world's longest known cave system.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.