Murals

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

Mexico's first public cable car soars over the congested streets outside Mexico City.

No one knows who painted this mysterious mural in a Penn State basement.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

A 50-foot tile mural mosaic for the 100-year anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.