Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

A collection of vintage liaison aircraft kept in flying condition and on display at an airfield in San Antonio.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Georgetown’s most impressive building is also one of the tallest wooden churches in the world.

This small fort played a huge role defending Puerto Rico’s capital city.

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.