A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

Here lies Zona, whose ghostly testimony led to her husband’s murder conviction.

The rocks around this mountain are filled with so many carvings that the area became known as the "open library."

Lions carved into the rockface adorn these two tombs built into the mountains of Dadan.

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

A ceramic-tiled room at the Seelbach Hotel said to have secret tunnels used by Al Capone and a crowd that helped inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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