Places Edited by spadaadjusting

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

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 middle finger of modernity.