Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

This recipe is set in stone.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

A Romanesque sanctuary of calm amid the bustle of downtown Los Angeles.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.