The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

Berlin's old airport.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!