Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

In Mumbai, a bright blue synagogue is the largest one for the Baghdadi Jewish community in Asia.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.