Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Set sail on a small scale.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

The most confusing clock in New York.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.