A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

The former Nazi concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

An extraordinary "City of Caves" carved from solid stone.

Time has stopped at the house where Gandhi died.

The world's longest known cave system.

Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.