Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Visible from both land and sea.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A station built to repel pirates now attracts wealthy vacationers.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

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

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.