Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

According to this bar, God gave an “11th commandment” to Antwerp: Thou shalt drink beer.

This legendary giant, born from vegetables, terrorized townspeople and cheated local children in games.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

Europe's official "zero-level," the equator of elevation.

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

This pavement line and accompanying statue commemorates the starting point for the world's oldest annual marathon.