After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.

The world's largest rotating world.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

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

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.