Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

Locals transformed this Canadian evergreen into a secret hangout with spectacular views of Vancouver's skyline.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

The tiniest little stage in New York.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

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