The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

The floating gallery illuminates the heart of Québec City's arts district.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

A hidden Brooklyn basement gallery where two biologists nurture one of the Northeast’s rarest and most vibrant reptile collections.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.