The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Yo, Adrian!

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

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

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

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

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.