Asbury Park, New Jersey
Asbury Park Casino and Carousel House
Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.
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Asbury Park, New Jersey
Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.
Cedar Creek, Texas
The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.
Austin, Texas
Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Austin, Texas
Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
New York, New York
Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.
New York, New York
Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.
New York, New York
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
Houston, Texas
At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.
San Antonio, Texas
Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.
Lviv, Ukraine
This unique Lady Liberty is one of the only examples of the figure sitting down.
Kyiv, Ukraine
340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
New York, New York
A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.
New York, New York
The most confusing clock in New York.
New York, New York
New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.
New York, New York
One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.
New York, New York
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
New York, New York
Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.