This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

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

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

New York's oldest magic store.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Genesis of modern hydroelectric power.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.