This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.

A towering steel-and-bronze figure whose playful nickname outshines its official message of hope

A small shrine dedicated to a tanuki statue, tucked away in a Blade Runner-esque izakaya alley

This nondescript row house in downtown Washington, D.C., was the home of a very secretive group for well over a century

A relic from ancient Egypt that is purported to have a curse associated with it

A metro station dedicated to the long relations between Mexico and Ethiopia, with an equivalent in Addis Ababa

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event

Where some of America's earliest LGBTQ rights protests marched each Fourth of July

A small Canadian town founded as a refuge for Loyalists following American Independence.

A rare opportunity to drive across the ocean floor.

Immortalized in bronze, this frazzled student will be glued to his screen for centuries.

The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

A free James Turrell artwork all to yourself

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This medieval city gate is now a blend of the past and the modern world.

This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.

These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.

This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

One of the earliest subway stations in Stockholm, which still looks like the 1950s.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

A pentagram-covered shrine dedicated to a famed court astrologer known in the west as the Merlin of Japan.

A modest Alabama recording studio where some of music’s biggest voices found their sound.