The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.

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.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

A 20-foot-tall quarter commemorates George Washington’s ties to Bedford County.

The first blast furnace in the United States that used coal and coke fuel instead of charcoal to make pig iron.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.