The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

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

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Hundreds of protractors affixed to surfaces all over the city.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.