A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

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

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.