Tallinn, Estonia
St Nicholas' Church Danse Macabre
Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.
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Tallinn, Estonia
Seaplane Harbour
Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.
Mack, Colorado
A Trail Through Time
This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.
Vilnius, Lithuania
Literatų Gatvė (Literature Street)
Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.
Tartu, Estonia
Tartu Student Lock-Up
Troublesome students were detained in this tiny graffiti-covered university jail.
Permanently Closed
Narva, Estonia
Narva Lenin
A statue of the Soviet leader still stands in a quiet corner of Estonia’s most Russian city.
Liepāja, Latvia
Saint Nicholas Naval Cathedral
This ornate church has survived Nazi and Soviet occupation, including a short stint as a Soviet-era gymnasium and cinema.
Naudītes Pagasts, Latvia
Pokaini Forest
Mysterious heaps of stones dot these otherworldly woods.
New York, New York
Ancient Egyptian Beef Shoulder
Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.
New York, New York
Shorakkopoch Rock
A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.
Brooklyn, New York
The Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn
While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.
New York, New York
Gay Liberation
The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.
New York, New York
New York Herald Monument
There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.
New York, New York
Broken Kilometer
One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.
New York, New York
Shrine of Saint Frances Cabrini
The mummified relics of an American missionary.
Brooklyn, New York
Masstransiscope
A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.
New York, New York
Grand Central Ceiling Dark Patch
A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.
New York, New York
One Times Square
This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.
New York, New York
Jeffrey's Hook Light
Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.
New York, New York
Union Square Metronome
The most confusing clock in New York.
New York, New York
Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
New York, New York
Giant Needle and Button
There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
New York, New York
The Sisyphus Stones
Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.
New York, New York
Barthman's Sidewalk Clock
A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.
