A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

In the center of Wrocław's old meat market stands a somber tribute to the city's livestock.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

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

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.