Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This historic graveyard was partially paved over to create a streetcar line.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.