This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

This beautifully preserved Ottoman house is steeped in history.

An Orthodox church inside a small "Garden of Eden" built by a man who had a vision.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.