There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.