For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

"Leave a He-Man, Take a Transformer" and share a story about your real-life superhero.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

On Waikīkī Beach, a monument to four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirits who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai'i.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

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.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

A showcase of geologic history is home to one of the largest collection of lunar meteorites on Earth.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.