The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This national landmark is also home to a massive treehouse.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

A pair of 19th-century granite markers symbolically record where the state boundaries of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania intersect.

Grand architectural relics gain a new life in this Pennsylvania warehouse.

The life-size bronze statue commemorates the ride of 16-year-old American Revolutionary War hero.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

The largest Walmart Supercenter in the United States, referred to affectionately as “Mallmart,” has served the residents of Albany, New York, since 1994.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

The remnants of a luxurious resort that saw its peak in the 1970s and 1980s has been abandoned since 2009, leaving behind the wreckage of both the hotel and a beautiful ice skating rink.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.