Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

This feat of German engineering is one of the only elevators in the world following a curved path.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

Though these human-made islands were constructed as an escape for the wealthy, they rarely see many visitors.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

A different kind of swan princess.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

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

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

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

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

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.