A labyrinthine museum chronicling the history of African culture in Brazil.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

This singular art museum in São Paulo is unique inside and out.

A beautiful midcentury mural by the famed Brazilian modernist artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

This somber statue remembers the enslaved women who were forced to nurse their owners' babies.

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

An enigmatic mural hiding in plain sight in one of São Paulo's busiest metro stations.

An original apothecary from 1792.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

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

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

This recipe is set in stone.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.