This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

A miniature representation of Canadian cities and landmarks in incredible—and sometimes hilarious—detail.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A garden full of metal sculptures that celebrate the double bass.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

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

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.