Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

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

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

Time travel back to the 19th century and catch an old-timey baseball game at a 209-acre recreated village.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

One of the few remaining Rosenwald Schools left in Virginia.

This house was used by the FBI to broadcast disinformation to the Nazis during World War II.

This pole near the infield rail at Belmont Park marks the jaw-dropping margin of Secretariat’s 1973 Belmont Stakes victory.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.

The famed poet was born in 1819 in a farmhouse built by his father.

This graceful little figure is a one-of-a-kind version of the cherished character.

Now a retreat center for the faithful, it once provided training for clergy—but it began as a farm owned by a famed financier and his opera singer wife, who built a surprise in the backyard.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This modest structure is where noted musician and the Band drummer Levon Helm grew up.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.