The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

The deepest metro station in the world.