Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

This fully restored synagogue explores the American Jewish experience along the old frontier.

This Brazilian palace island was once the site of the last grand ball before revolution.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

The eccentric home of Estevão Silva da Conceição, known as the "Brazilian Gaudí."

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

This beautiful spit of land was once the summer playground of the king of Spain.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

For decades, Puerta del Sol has been illuminated by a giant, guitar-wielding bottle of sherry.

Here be dragons.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

The remains of a once-famous hotel that also acted as an artist colony.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

This influential Renaissance-era library was once the haunt of kings and monks.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.