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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A carriage house converted into what resembles an 11th-century English manor house