This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.