The slate extracted from these Pennsylvania quarries was once hailed as the finest in the world.

A tragic mystery left this boy nameless for 65 years.

Metal monsters made from repurposed materials lurk alongside this Pennsylvania road.

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

A rock maze opens up to a panoramic viewpoint at an abandoned mine full of ghost stories.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

This centuries-old graveyard is the final resting place of the Fort Fisher Hermit.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

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