This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

A former travertine mine traces the geological history of this unique desert filled with crystalline blue pools.

Abandoned station along an ancient pilgrimage route.

Housed in a stunning Victorian building, this museum has the largest exhibition of knives, blades, penknives, and scissors in Spain.

In the heart of Luxembourg's "little Switzerland" weaves a breathtaking natural sandstone canyon with a mythological past.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

An underwater city for the dead.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.