The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

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.

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

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.