These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

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

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.