The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

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.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.