Jersey City, New Jersey
The Katyń Massacre Memorial
This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.
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New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Tramway
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
Rome, Italy
Porta Alchemica
An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.
New York, New York
Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
New York, New York
Grand Central Terminal Whispering Gallery
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Cat Sanctuary
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
Prypiat, Ukraine
Abandoned City of Prypiat
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
New York, New York
New York's Hidden Tropical Forest
A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.
New York, New York
The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Rome, Italy
Santa Maria della Concezione Crypts
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
New York, New York
The SeaGlass Carousel
Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.
New York, New York
The Elevated Acre
Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
New York, New York
Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Medical History Hamburg
Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.
Belgrade, Serbia
Igrali Se Konji Vrani (Black Horses at Play)
The unusual sculptures are believed to be powerful political symbols.
Stockholm, Sweden
Långholmen Crash Site
A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.
Berlin, Germany
Vestiges of the Berlin Wall
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
Berlin, Germany
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Berlin, Germany
Soviet Graffiti in the Reichstag
The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin-Friedrichstrasse Railway Station
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Prague, Czechia
Old New Synagogue
Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.
Prague, Czechia
Old Jewish Cemetery
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
