An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Yo, Adrian!

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.