America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.

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

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

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

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...