A wonderous place devoted to art and metal.

At the end of a street is a statue with no indication as to why it was created.

A park in a small Pennsylvania town is home to an original sculpture by one of its native sons, legendary artist and activist Keith Haring.

A fascinating community art piece created by students, teachers, and noted Philadelphia artist Isaiah Zagar.

A smaller model of the Da Vinci sculpture that took 500 years to come to life.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

Constrained by time and topography, this civil engineering landmark was constructed 100 feet above Starrucca Creek over the course of a single year.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

This extensive display of bobbleheads is a tribute to one of the most unique pieces of sports memorabilia.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

This landmark honoring a local beer brand is an iconic part of the Minneapolis skyline.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

A gift from Japan, 17th-century lantern stands among the cherry trees at D.C.'s Tidal Basin.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

The poet Walt Whitman was a frequent visitor to this spot, the highest on Long Island.

The famed poet was born in 1819 in a farmhouse built by his father.