Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

At just 51 feet and 10 inches long, it's the shortest street in England.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.