The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the ruins of this ancient monastic community.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.