This 19th-century fountain's namesake animal isn't what you think it is.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

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

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

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

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Berlin's old airport.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.