A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

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

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

On the second floor of a small town library is an homage to angling and memorial to a great local fisherman.

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

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

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

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

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

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

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