Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.