The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

It houses a menagerie of wondrous taxidermy specimens from around the world, including the remains of a famous gorilla.

An array of ancient artifacts from Bronze Age Bristol and other civilizations are housed in this museum.

An authentic, seaworthy replica of the ship that sailed to Newfoundland in 1497.

An alchemical monument that represents "Earth, Air, Fire, and Water."

This church is said to have connections to the Knights Templars.

A 142-foot-tall Q-tip on Bristol's skyline.

This Grade II Listed Building with an Art Nouveau façade once contained a unique print shop.

After protestors toppled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader, the pedestal where it once stood remains unoccupied.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

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

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

The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.

A beautiful midcentury mural by the famed Brazilian modernist artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.