Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.

Monkeys inhabit the lush forest surrounding ancient Mayan ruins once considered sacred.

These roaring primates were considered a divine creature in the cosmology of the Maya.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.