Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

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

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

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.