This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A student driver's nightmare.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

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.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

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

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

Become a prohibition rebel.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.