A winery built on the site of a Gallo-Roman estate uses historical tools to recreate ancient vintages.

The longest and steepest staircase locks in the United Kingdom.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

Inside this reclamation yard is a unique collection of horse-drawn vehicles.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Hundreds of iconic jazz records were made in this church-like space.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A living descendant of the famous tree that helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.