The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

One of the first major shipyards in Brooklyn.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

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

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

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

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.