A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

This vessel is believed to be the oldest operating fireboat in the world.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

Here be dragons.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.