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

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

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Time has stopped at the house where Gandhi died.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

The place of worship for Zoroastrians, Mumbai's Parsi fire temples use fire and ash for purification.

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

The ancient remains of this natural fortress can still be found along the Silk Road looking surprisingly preserved.

Hundreds of caves filled with thousands of centuries-old statues and murals.

Be careful not to get trampled at this lively two thousand-year-old market.

These excavated burials from the Tarim Basin are wrapped in mystery.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.