Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

An homage to the medieval rulers of Bulgaria.

A decaying, yet still functioning, work of communist architecture.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.