The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Test your business savvy and play the market for cocktails at this stock exchange-inspired watering hole.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

An ancient hotspot for spotting schools of fish.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."