Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

The loneliest island in New York.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.