Designed by famed 20th-century architect Cass Gilbert, the future of this abandoned 1908 rail station is currently in limbo.

Because holiday cheer is at its finest when it includes eerie mannequins, right?

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

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

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

A dedication plaque on this Boston tunnel is a microcosm of a massive, controversy-laden construction project.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.