Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

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

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.