The "Seinfeld" diner.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

World's largest collection of Coke-related items not held by the Coca-Cola company.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.