"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Venice's island of the dead.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

Celebrating the greatest pugilists the world has ever known.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

Abandoned rock quarry now a haven for mountain bikers and hikers.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

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

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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