Florence, Italy
The Bull of Santa Maria del Fiore
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
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Florence, Italy
This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.
Florence, Italy
The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.
Florence, Italy
This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.
Florence, Italy
The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Once considered a marvel of engineering, this 107-mile canal played an integral role in building New York City.
Jersey City, New Jersey
This haunting monument honors the victims of 9/11.
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.
Atlantic City, New Jersey
The third-tallest lighthouse in the United States stands as a reminder of Atlantic City's early days.
Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.
Baltimore, Maryland
This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.
Corning, New York
Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.
Mount Tremper, New York
The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.
Paterson, New Jersey
In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.
Carlstadt, New Jersey
Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.
Rutherford, New Jersey
Seven golden statues rise into the sky from sculptor Victor Victori's New Jersey front lawn.
Rutherford, New Jersey
Originally built in 1869, this castle is currently part of Felician University's campus.
Kearny, New Jersey
This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.
Weehawken, New Jersey
The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.
Hoboken, New Jersey
The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.
Jersey City, New Jersey
This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.
Jersey City, New Jersey
On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.