Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

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

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

An ancient Greek monument and a Byzantine church coexist inside this cave.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.