Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

What started as makeshift fishermen's housing has grown into a massive, floating community.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

Come for the bread-themed puppet show, stay for the buffet.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This ruined travelers shelter sits abandoned in a desolate bog of Flow Country.

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

This massive monument was unveiled the day Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.

This sprawling, formerly elite sporting complex in Amman, Jordan has become a local picnic spot.

A bathhouse from the second Islamic Caliphate decorated with frescoes of constellations, pleasure gardens, and naked ladies.

This restored eighth-century palace is a shining example of ancient Umayyad architecture.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.