Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

The loneliest island in New York.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

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

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.