On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

These four fountains are said to have healing properties, with a glass of the 'miracle' water being given to Louis XII of France.