This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

Because holiday cheer is at its finest when it includes eerie mannequins, right?

A century-old historical movie theatre that plays a mix of independent and mainstream films.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Designed by famed 20th-century architect Cass Gilbert, the future of this abandoned 1908 rail station is currently in limbo.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

These sculptures were designed to beautify this neighborhood when it was established in the 1940s.

This statue is in the center of San Jacinto Plaza, commemorating the live alligator pond that once stood in the area.