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Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

A quirky collection of old chairs fills a random vacant lot in suburban Texas.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

Set sail on a small scale.

A Bed-Stuy gymnasium that hosts expansive raves, performances, dance parties, and more.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.