Places Edited by EB Savage

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."