This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

One of the largest publicly funded mural in the country is one city's love letter to itself.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.