New York's oldest magic store.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

A 125-meter long "tribute to the Brazilian people."

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

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

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

The Titanic sails again in one Scotland man's backyard.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.