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

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

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

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

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

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

This stunning waterfall is the backdrop to a site that has seen continuous human habitation for 250,000 years.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.