The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Amid skyscrapers and traffic exists this unique aquatic ecosystem.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

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

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

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.

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

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

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.