A tropical paradise once home to space exploration and military installations.

Where a rare geological phenomenon created a section of rock that resembles a checkerboard.

Under the desolate and windswept northern coast of Barbados stands a small oasis filled with sea anemones.

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

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

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

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

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

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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