Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

One of the tallest buildings in Africa provides a great view of Johannesburg's unique geography.

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.