Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.

This South Pacific volcano has been blowing its stack for over 800 years and is said to be home to a cult leader waiting to be reborn.

Marvel of green building techniques that sings with the wind.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

This quiet island in the middle of a bustling city is actually a volcano dotted with Māori ruins.

In an Auckland neighborhood, looming chopsticks lift noodles from the sidewalk.