A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

The most confusing clock in New York.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

This colonial town in Colombia sits around the largest stone paved square in South America.

A small subculture of boat dwellers keep their traditional way of living alive at this Hong Kong Typhoon Shelter.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.

In the middle of one of South America's most historic walled cities lies a bar with an enormous collection of Soviet memorabilia.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.