A 12-foot sculpture serves as a constant reminder of the importance of protecting and restoring the Boardman River.   

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

A medieval wash house where people washed clothes in a river allegedly formed by the tears of a mourning nymph.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.