Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

This bank is widely believed to be the inspiration for the offices of Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective featured in a number of Raymond Chandler's stories.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.