A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The Adriatic's most famous wind can be reliably experienced in the city's Marina.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

The first modernist church in Europe.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

New York's oldest magic store.

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

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.