The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.