This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

The Tallahassee Airport serves over half a million passengers a year and is home to some permanent residents too.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

A year-long seasonal produce clock highlighting a variety of fruits and vegetables from across the Piedmont region.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

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

A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

This historic church with a connection to "Uncle Sam" is now a fraternity house.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.