The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

10,500 square feet of pinball housed in former dollar store and home to the last playable "Thunderball."

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

Dedicated to a surgeon who made several natural discoveries across Australia.

Dedicated to a pivotal figure in the region's tourism industry.

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

A plaque at the lighthouse where Frederick Valentich made his last radio contact before he vanished without a trace.