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

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

The Father of the Erie Canal has a magnificent grave marker that redefines the term "final resting place."

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Four cars from the old system were once on display, but were removed in 2014.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

This haunting monument honors the victims of 9/11.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.