Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

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

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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.

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

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.