This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.

Art becomes an enchanting part of the environment at this wooded sculpture park.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

A favorite with sightseers, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

The largest medieval water tank on the Iberian Peninsula is preserved beneath the Cáceres Museum.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."