Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.