Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

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

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

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

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

These ornate manhole covers were used for a now-forgotten purpose.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.