Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

Yo, Adrian!

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

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A piece of telecommunications history.

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

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

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

This monument pays tribute to the musicians responsible for creating the Sound Of Asbury Park.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.