Places Edited by Michael Busch

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

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

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

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

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

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

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

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