The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

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.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.