Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

This remote piece of Cape Breton coast was the unceremonious landing site of the first solo, east-west transatlantic flight made by a female aviator.

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

A simple memorial between a ball field and a skate park honors 21 men lost in a horrific mining accident.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

Home of the world's smallest dinosaur footprints.

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.

A tiny, picturesque island, where cows and wild horses wander around the houses.

The remains of an attempt to carve a thriving metropolis from the forest, and once home to the first revolving door in North America.

A rare opportunity to drive across the ocean floor.

A complicated, forgotten beacon of hope for thousands of immigrants, "Canada's Emerald Isle" lies in ruin.

A mysterious spot where the laws of gravity seem not to apply.