These sculptures were designed to beautify this neighborhood when it was established in the 1940s.

A unique collection of figures perform down the facade of the Gene Frankel Theatre.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

The people of Padua pledged to construct this church if the city was spared from destruction during World War I.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This mission, established in 1771, is the most remote of California’s Franciscan missions.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A symbol of Texas pride.

The most confusing clock in New York.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

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

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.