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With people packed like sardines into Manhattan’s barely escapable tinder box apartments, the Fire Department of New York has become one of the city’s most essential and brave public departments right alongside the NYPD and the the paramedics, and the single largest...

Originally the site that now houses the Fraunces Tavern was originally the home of early New York mayor Stephanus van Cortlandt but the current building was constructed in 1719 and quickly became a clubhouse for revolutionaries, eventually hosting George Washington when...

Built over 200 years ago, Quebec City’s first prison has been retro-fitted into an inviting cultural center that explores the history of English-speaking culture in area despite many locals’ disdain for it.   Originally constructed in 1712 as military barracks,...

Growing from a donated private collection, the Cole Museum of Zoology allows visitors to take a tour down the taxonomic line via ordered displays of biology including the skeleton of a former circus elephant that seems to be galloping after a flying whale skeleton. ...