There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.