The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

No one knows who built this strange cave of worship or exactly why.

This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

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.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

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

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.