Giant relaxing Buddha in Malaysia.

Townhouse facade doubles as an RMS Titanic Memorial.

Skewer up Kangaroo.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

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

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

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.