This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

A garden of flying flowers.

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Uninhabited islet in the Caribbean is the sanctuary of giant lizards.

This island hill is strewn with boulders carved by shipwreck victims from the age of sail.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Beer lover's can-covered house.