One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

The saddest little diner in New York.

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

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

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

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

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

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 innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

A cargo of beautiful music.

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

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

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.