Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

A Faraday Cage protects cars from a nearby high-power transmitter.

This statue has a painful history, but activists have since recontextualized it as a way to educate visitors about the dangers posed by fascist regimes.

The crumbling remains of a once-grand building.

This bank is widely believed to be the inspiration for the offices of Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective featured in a number of Raymond Chandler's stories.

The Swiss hilltop housed an early 20th-century vegetarian nudist colony.

If James Bond bungee-jumped off the side of a 720-foot dam, would you do it too?

This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

The world's only silo that was topped by two revolving restaurants has unfortunately been demolished.

Dedicated to this region's early settlements and rich history of salt mining.