This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

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

This monument is dedicated to Balto, the heroic Alaskan sled dog.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

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

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.