Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

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

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

A crushed gate and giant bronze head serve as a reminder of Greece's fight for freedom.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.