Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.