For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Ernest Hemingway was the first to sign this colorful wall covered in thousands of celebrity signatures.

A slingshot from this delightful collection is awarded each year to someone who has "pulled metaphorical slings in favor of the weak and marginalized."

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.