The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

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

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

The world's largest bust sculpture celebrates the Hindu deity, Shiva.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

Picnic on the seashore in the footsteps of ancient kings, protected by giant mythical cat beasts.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

The world's largest Tibetan refugee settlement.

This 11th-century temple gave rise to the word "juggernaut," as well as some mysteries that defy scientific explanation.

No cyclone yet has been able to topple this rugged Indian lighthouse.

Siddhartha Gautama sat here and received enlightenment.

World's tallest monolithic statue has served as a pilgrimage site since its completion in 993 CE.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

The abandoned site of the Beatles spiritual awakening and subsequent revolt.

Known as the leaning temple, the sacred structure has somehow developed a severe nine-degree slant.

Scholar, adventurer, saint, and instigator of the Goa Inquisition.