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

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

Two thousand feline artifacts fill Malaysia's "Cat City."

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

A monument to a working class martyr.

The holes in the world's longest golf course are in a series of different towns.

Monument that stands 40 feet and weighs 1,000 pounds.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.