Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

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

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

The tiniest little stage in New York.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

The most confusing clock in New York.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

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

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

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

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

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

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

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.