An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.