This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

In the foothills of the lesser Caucasus, a centuries-old fortress still stands.

This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.

This snug medieval lane is one of the narrowest streets in the world.

A display of works by one of the world masters sacred art, an 18th-century Brazilian sculptor nicknamed "the little cripple."

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

A brick building in Kathmandu's Durbar Square is home to Nepal's most prominent living goddess.

The potters' quarter is packed with artists sculpting clay gods with mud from the sacred Ganges river.

This lavish estate recalls the opulent history of Calcutta.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

Here be dragons.