During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.