Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

The forest hides a cemetery where members of the British Legion rest in peace.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

This sinister Baroque entryway could lead you to a terrible fate.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

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

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

Make sweet music as you walk through this interactive sonic sculpture.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Taiwan's last Chinese character letterpress preserves the dying art of Chinese character mold making.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

This house turned museum chronicles the life and work of Richard Neutra.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.