The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

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

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.