Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

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.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

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

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

A superbly preserved example of Georgian residential architecture that was once home to one of the founders of Alexandria, Virginia.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.