This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

This roadside wonder is as mysterious as it is beloved.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.