One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The middle finger of modernity.

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

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

The mysterious image is believed to show Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, in a beautiful blue dress.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.