Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

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

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

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

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.