This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

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

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

The ruins of a medieval seminary some say is the oldest university site in Scotland.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.