This unique house, the only one of its kind in Brooklyn, was built as part of a real estate developer's showcase.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

After traveling the world, one of the last remaining fully-rigged three masted iron-hulled cargo ship in the world found its home in New York.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

An ancient Roman temple first dedicated to an emperor's wife is now a church.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

Tucked in Mumbai’s wealthiest neighborhood is one of the city’s oldest and most sacred sites: a temple complex believed to house the waters of the Ganges.