The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

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

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.

Thousands of locks professing undying devotion line the metal chains of Lotus Peak.

The tiny statues form China's only known terracotta army from the Han dynasty.

A bisected journey through evolution's history in the heart of Beijing.

China's very own Atlantis is an ornate dynastic city resting at the bottom of a lake.

Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.