An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

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

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

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.

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

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

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

This mysterious and unique painting is filled with symbolism.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.