Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

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.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.