A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

A tree full of wishes and footwear.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

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

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

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

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

The library of every book lover's dreams.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The tragic heiress Barbara Woolworth Hutton built her seventh husband this Japanese-inspired palace in Mexico.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.