Places Edited by cait7911

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.