A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

This fountain was designed to honor the man who helped bring water to Barcelona.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A collection of playbills, photographs, and other memorabilia from the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

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

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Over 75 historically themed murals grace the walls of a small Washington city.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.