The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

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

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

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

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.