Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.

Tucked away in this local museum is a piece of sporting equipment that dates to the 16th-century.

A bronze statue pays tribute to the Hungarian player and coach, one of soccer's first international superstars.

The first location of the eventual video game giant.

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

The gathering point of an old Melbourne swimming club was site of a historic, world-record dive in 1918.

This gold mine–turned–swimming hole is the perfect summer picnic spot, immersed in nature and history.

The highest bridge in Myanmar was once the tallest railway bridge in the world.

What was meant as an innocent piece of art has earned a reputation as the "mansplaining sculpture."

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

The "largest bathroom stall in the world" offers a unique pit-stop experience.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

A disused quarry turned lake in the middle of a residential district.

A small museum dedicated to taking the taboo out of all things related to poo.