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.

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

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

You'll find the little birds tucked within the rocks of this Australian beach.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.