The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

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

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

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

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.