Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

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

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

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

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.

What better place to take a seat?