An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

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

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

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

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

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

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

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

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.