Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

A magnificent Victorian garden that brings the charm and style of old-time aristocracy to the 21st century public.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.