Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.