A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

Where royalty waits in the height of luxury.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

A condensed piece of China floating in a Dutch harbor.

The European equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame is slowly spreading over the entire city.

Only a few walls remain of the last church the Pilgrims used before they sailed to North America.

A bridge that has seen many reiterations over its lifetime.

At the base of this tower, a plaque marks the original center point of the Netherlands.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The final resting place of a former Dodgers and Mets player can be found in central Brooklyn, in the first diocesan cemetery for Catholics in the borough.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

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

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.