This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A town's monument to a touch-football victory 50 years in the making.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Always a new use for this old building.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.