The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.