Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.

The burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.

These haunting ruins belong to an ancient village that once had one hell of a view.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.