A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

The massive Roman arch in New Hampshire that was meant to be a tomb.

A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

A restored Shell gas station from 1937 that includes a tow truck, the original gas pumps, and the original office.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

In a New Jersey cemetery, the final resting place of two brothers who fell victim to a deadly mushroom.