The famous author's cottage hideaway.

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."

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The oldest structure in a beachside California city was built to serve eight students.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

Climb down into the largest sinkhole in Qatar.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.