This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.