Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

A Barbados crypt where it's said that the coffins refuse to stay put.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The only tennis court that falls under the jurisdiction of the central bank.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

Home to items never before seen by the public.