Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

Delve into the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, harbor town history, and a quiet seaside garden at this charming library.

One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

Preserving the memory of the narrow railroads that once crisscrossed the state of Maine.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

The oldest private residence in New York City.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

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

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.