This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

The remnants of a luxurious resort that saw its peak in the 1970s and 1980s has been abandoned since 2009, leaving behind the wreckage of both the hotel and a beautiful ice skating rink.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.