Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

The most confusing clock in New York.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.