This stone in Lake Geneva was once the reference point used to determine altitude in Switzerland.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

The place where World War I began.

Europe's official "zero-level," the equator of elevation.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

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

The last vessel built by a submarine pioneer stands as a monument to his legacy.

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.