After traveling the world, the last remaining fully-rigged three masted iron-hulled cargo ship in the world found its home in New York.

Before this area was filled with luxury homes, it was a movie star's 160-acre ranch and a gangster's hideout.

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

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

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

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

The system of air guns are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.

When this monument to Slovenia's national poet was erected, it's said to have sparked the ire of nearby church authorities.

Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

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

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

One man’s obsessive, 30-plus-year quest is behind the pies at this spot on the Lower East Side.