A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

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

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

At an isolated roadside rest area stands a monument marking where famous Western star Tom Mix died in 1940.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

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