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

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

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

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

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

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

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

Ever loyal to Roma, the small village of Albe in the Abruzzo region carried on until an earthquake did it in.