Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

A tombstone on the grounds of the royal castle marks the burial site of a Swedish king's beloved dog.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

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

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

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Become a prohibition rebel.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.