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

The Spanish king's private bathroom embraced the idea of a porcelain throne.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

The largest spring in Northwest Arkansas is also home to a sprawling botanical gardens and a historically significant bluff.

The home of a 19th-century author who brought African-American folktales to the mainstream is now Atlanta’s oldest house museum.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.