Built in France in the 1400s, this gothic chapel now resides at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

House a green chile pork Crunchwrap swaddled in hot, fresh tortillas.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A commemoration of the little-known cultural influence that Tolstoy had on India.

A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Here be dragons.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.