Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.