The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.

The first mosque in Ghana is known as the "Mecca of West Africa."

Topless shrine of northern Ghana.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

An enormous public square and parade ground built to celebrate Ghana's independence.