This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Yo, Adrian!

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

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

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."