A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

This monument pays tribute to the musicians responsible for creating the Sound Of Asbury Park.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

This recipe is set in stone.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

The Father of the Erie Canal has a magnificent grave marker that redefines the term "final resting place."

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

This diesel train serviced the Brooklyn waterfront for more than three decades.

This monument is dedicated to Balto, the heroic Alaskan sled dog.

A wooden rollercoaster that still delivers a thrill.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.