A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.