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

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

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

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

The birthplace of the very first human resident born in Antarctica.

These abandoned huts still hold the remains of an early 20th century Australian researcher's work.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.

This abandoned Antarctic base sits nearly unchanged since it was forsaken in the 1950s, just waiting for you to visit.

Southern Ocean waters and glacial forces transform the Antarctic ice into these stunning bridges and caves.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.