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

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

This earthwork installation sits on a grassy hill, celebrating Iceland's past and present.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

Liechtenstein's royal family calls this medieval alpine castle home.

Browse through a century of this principality's first popular export.

This Swiss cemetery is reserved for people who died in climbing accidents.

A permanent exhibition honors Queen, which recorded seven albums at the casino-based studio, including “Under Pressure” with David Bowie.

This statue pays tribute to the iconic musician in the place where he recorded his final studio album.

This stone in Lake Geneva was once the reference point used to determine altitude in Switzerland.

An early masterpiece of Le Corbusier, a famed Modernist architect, hiding in plain sight.

On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.