America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

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

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

Home to a dizzying array of letterpress blocks with a rich history.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.