The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

The man who voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and more has a headstone reading, "That's all, folks!"

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

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

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.