One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

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

This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.

This local gem houses the largest collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings outside of the U.K.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.