Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

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

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

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

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.