The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

This 200-year-old cabin was the home of some of the first Wisconsin “badgers” and the site of the broken promises that led to their arrival.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

The only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in the architect's hometown.

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

Plaques on its facade commemorate the Tiber's most destructive deluges.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

Legend has it that this bronze orb, which sat atop an ancient Egyptian obelisk, once held the ashes of Julius Caesar.

An ancient Roman temple first dedicated to an emperor's wife is now a church.