A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

A trompe-l'oeil statue honoring the first guide dog in North America.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

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

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.