Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

Once a crime hotspot, this refurbished underpass is now home to a bookstore and a mural celebrating the history of Manila.

This mountainside mural of a person carrying a torch was created for the 1994 Winter Olympics.

During the 17th-century, orphaned infants were placed in this barrel to be cared for by the hospital.

Home to the world's largest collection of ancient Champa's sculptural works, featuring many Hindu and Buddhist deities.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

A mother’s sweet tradition lives on with this unique memorial.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

Long before Europeans arrived, Native Americans built an artificial island out of shells that has withstood a millennia of hurricanes.

A chalk horse cut into an English hillside in the 19th century.

The cutest way to stay safe in traffic.

In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.

A gathering of green robots at the Googleplex.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.