The recreated ruins of a house designed to memorialize a World War I shelling on the town.

This plaque commemorates an amazing 19th-century sea rescue.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

The most confusing clock in New York.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

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

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This Grade II Listed Building with an Art Nouveau façade once contained a unique print shop.

An ornate doorway leads to the former site of one of the city's oldest society of merchants.

After protestors toppled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader, the pedestal where it once stood remains unoccupied.

A plaque claims this artwork outside a children's hospital was used in the 1998 Quidditch World Cup.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

Believed to be the longest railway bench in the world.

The sole surviving medieval street cross in Scarborough.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.