Come in, light some incense, and ignore the live snakes around you.

Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring.

Initially built for a Chinese princess and sultana, this well was used to secretly assassinate some 200 Portuguese colonizers.

One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

Originally built for London’s cab drivers, this bright green hut now serves anyone a hot drink or meal.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The world's largest wooden structure.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

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

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.