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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Wood carving meets bird conservation at this museum showcasing the life's work of one man.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

Dozens of playful sculptures blanket these 200 rolling acres of farmland in an ode to art and landscape.

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.