Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

Berlin's old airport.

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

A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

According to legend, this rock represents a young girl trapped by an evil ocean spirit.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

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

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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