A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

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

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

Archaeological sites and great food inside the island's largest mangrove forest.

Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.