The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

A jungle in the heart of São Paulo reminds visitors of what Brazil looked like untouched by man.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

São Paulo's oldest magic shop has been hiding in plain sight for nearly four decades.

Dozens of vintage puppets are displayed in an unassuming hallway at the public library.

A beautiful midcentury mural by the famed Brazilian modernist artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.

This singular art museum in São Paulo is unique inside and out.

This park feels like a lush little jungle full of wildlife nestled within São Paulo.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

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

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.