New York's oldest magic store.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

A stunning gilt bronze relief denounced by Hitler as "degenerate art"—even though it was dedicated to the Nazi leader.

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.