A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Mexican food and folk art.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.