The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.