This fully restored synagogue explores the American Jewish experience along the old frontier.

In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.

This notorious dive has been serving up both kinds of spirits since 1879.

This 19th-century house museum features a horse-drawn hearse and other antique oddities.

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Spend a hour meandering, breathing, and learning along this lovely untouted path that connects historic gardens.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

Yo, Adrian!

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

A curious building honoring past and current members of a historic musical comedy troupe.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.