This often-overlooked ocean walkway was once considered an impossible fantasy.

The former house of an anthropologist couple displays Lacandón Maya artifacts in a homey atmosphere.

Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

This modern tandoor eatery was once a canteen for Soviet farmers.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.