The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

One of the first Second Empire-style buildings constructed in North America.

This enormous photomural pays homage to Vancouver's infamous history of public activism.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

A small graveyard is hidden in the midst of a bustling university campus.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

An overlooked tribute to one of the most important peace deals in American history.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

Was there a small "backpack nuke" hidden in the attic? JFK apparently thought so.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

The fountains of the U.S. Navy Memorial are annually salted with water from the Seven Seas as part of a nautical ritual.