Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

In 1986, Keith Haring was arrested for painting this anti-drug mural on a Harlem handball court.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Here be dragons.

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

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

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

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.