The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

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

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

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

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

A life-sized memorial to Harry L. Collins, the official corporate magician of Frito-Lay.

Unique and somewhat surreal, this little girl's memorial depicts a playful Jesus.