One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court, and it's not the first one.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

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.

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

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt and a pirate.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

This abandoned orphanage-turned-asylum witnessed a terrible chapter in Québec's history.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

Little island known for its massive beachfront "flowerpot" pillars.

The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.

This haunted corpse of a drive-in is now a graffiti-covered ruin.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.