This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.

The corporeal remains of Napoleon III's dentist rest under this 15-story obelisk.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

A local prank turned town icon.

Yo, Adrian!

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

One of the oldest of its kind.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.