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

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”