Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.