An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

In the upscale neighborhood of Miraflores in Lima, a pretty little park is home to dozens of cats.

A colossal statue of a woman hugging a modern building.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

A colony of Mexican free-tailed bats live under the bridge and take flight at sundown all summer long.

In 1703, French settlers in what is now Mobile celebrated the first Mardi Gras celebration in the United States.

Once the grandest synagogue in medieval Spain, it now stands as a memorial of the 15th-century Jewish exile.

One of Scandinavia's largest mosaics pays tribute to Danish art and science luminaries.

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

A glimpse of the Pacific Northwest‘s indigenous culture in Washington, D.C.

This iconic neon jester is a local landmark that you might recognize from his cameos in film and television.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

A gift from Japan, 17th-century lantern stands among the cherry trees at D.C.'s Tidal Basin.

This log house sits in the remote Canadian wilderness, and holds a mysterious tale of the trapper who built it.

Step aboard the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

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.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.