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

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

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

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

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.