An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

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