A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Venice's island of the dead.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

The old fire station features a mural that has more to it than first meets the eye.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.