America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

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

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.