An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

Designed to not only to represent the history of the local community but also, the future.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

Showing films since the silent era of the 1920s, it is now the last movie house in downtown Newport.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The first regular high-definition TV transmissions were made from this seemingly out-of-place mast located on one corner of a Victorian-era entertainment venue.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This 500-meter-long memorial pays tribute to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to COVID-19 in the UK.

These former ticket office windows in London's underground now house pocket-size parks.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Run by the same people as a subterranean art space, this pub does double-duty as a Cave of Wonders.