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This contemplative sculpture made out of old machine parts is meant to be the first in a series of sculptures around the world.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

This sculptural piece by the artist Tom Otterness doubles as a jungle gym.

A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.