The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

The burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This enchanting hill is home to fairy lore and a sinister local mystery.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.