The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.