Brooklyn, New York
The Lehigh Barge and the Waterfront Museum Showboat Barge
Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.
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Brooklyn, New York
Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.
Brooklyn, New York
Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!
New York, New York
A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.
New York, New York
Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.
New York, New York
Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
New York, New York
An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
New Haven, Connecticut
The headquarters of the famous Yale society.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Anaheim, California
The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.
Inglewood, California
A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.
San Marino, California
Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.
Sydney, Australia
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Saint-Denis, France
The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.
Paris, France
Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.
Paris, France
The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.
Paris, France
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
Paris, France
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Paris, France
One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.