This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

It memorializes America’s initial military response to the terrorist attacks on our country on September 11, 2001.

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

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This public art pays homage to the baseball legend and civil rights icon and his time in Montreal.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

An historic lighthouse accessible via a half-mile walk through a nature preserve and freshwater tidal wetlands.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

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

This ancient stele gives a testimony to the presence of the Syrian sun god Elagabalus on the Roman Empire's western frontier.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.