Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This beautiful fountain was sculpted by a female artist who was ahead of her time.

A statue of traditional Kazakh dancers adds some beauty to this Soviet-era mining city.