This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

This simple sailing boat is one of the oldest preserved fishing vessels of its kind in the world.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.