Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Set sail on a small scale.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.