Places easilyamused Wants to Go

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

Wander through more than 20,000 square feet filled with an amazing collection of orchids.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.