Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

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

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

You can spot this teeny tiny stained-glass window from the Bonifacius bridge.

In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.

According to this bar, God gave an “11th commandment” to Antwerp: Thou shalt drink beer.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A massively oversized measuring tape sculpture sits inside a hidden yard.

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.