Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

A yoga studio and venue for "chill-out parties" in a former chicken slaughterhouse.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.