This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

A small alleyway lined with locally drawn scenes of nostalgic anime and cartoon characters.

A hotel in Taiwan based on the better business practices that can be gleaned from Jewish law.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

A secret passageway from World War II is now a quirky pedestrian shortcut.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.