A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.