A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

Offering an enjoyable alternative to the standard hellacious post office trip.

Always a new use for this old building.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.

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

This snug medieval lane is one of the narrowest streets in the world.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.