Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.