Staten Island, New York
Holtermann's Bakery
In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.
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Staten Island, New York
In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.
Brooklyn, New York
A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.
Brooklyn, New York
Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.
Brooklyn, New York
This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.
Bronx, New York
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
New York, New York
A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.
San Francisco, California
The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.
San Francisco, California
An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.
Canterbury, England
This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.
Venice, Italy
This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.
Frederiksberg, Denmark
A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.
Boston, Massachusetts
Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.
Boston, Massachusetts
The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.
Boston, Massachusetts
A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.
Boston, Massachusetts
No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...
Lund, Sweden
The standard measure of Lagom, a measure of what is enough.
Derawar, Pakistan
Massive fortress bastions in the desert of Cholistan.
Aachen, Germany
A former customs station on the border of Germany and the Netherlands.
Iowa City, Iowa
This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.
Chongqing, China
The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.
Colobraro, Italy
Just saying the name of this town out loud is said to bring bad luck.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
One of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens in the world.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.
Moscow, Russia
The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.