Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

This 19th-century sanctuary was built atop a hill that once housed a Roman fort.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

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.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.