Bangkok, Thailand
Democracy Monument
Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.
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Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.
Baltimore, Maryland
Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.
Baltimore, Maryland
Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.
Naples, Italy
Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.
Anacapri, Italy
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
Capri, Italy
This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.
Djibouti
A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.
Tadjourah, Djibouti
Rimmed by white crusts of salt on every edge, Lac Assal is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.
Weehawken, New Jersey
The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.
New York, New York
The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.
New York, New York
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
New York, New York
A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.
New York, New York
This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.
New York, New York
Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.
New York, New York
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
New York, New York
The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.
New York, New York
New York's oldest magic store.
New York, New York
Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.
New York, New York
There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.
La Vega, Dominican Republic
Largest pre-Lent festival in the Dominican Republic.
Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic
The final resting place of Christopher Columbus - or possibly someone else.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
The first hospital in the New World.