A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

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

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

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

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.

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