The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

Incredible labyrinth of man made caves.

Visit the ancient, mysterious Roman catacombs ... in the Netherlands.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

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

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.