This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

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

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

This sprawling collection hides many charms.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

A chaotic collection of maritime artifacts, art, and really whatever else happens to be around.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

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

Commemoration of a sea voyage gone mysteriously wrong.

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.