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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.

One man's artistic vision is a small town government's legal battle.

Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.