What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

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Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.