This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This small museum is home to cannons cast by Paul Revere and the last remaining uniform of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

As state high-points-by-elevation go this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Two artist-designed restrooms are part of the collection at the Smith College Museum of Art.

Though a proud Texan, the 41st President of the United States started life in the suburbs of Boston.

Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.

The world's only surviving heavy cruiser has a haunting history.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

This electronics repair store celebrates the history of computers.