The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

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