This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

This Philly landmark has a giant butterfly pavilion, three floors of insect displays, and withstood a $40,000 heist.

Designed by Horace Trumbauer in 1893, this Gothic-style castle is now a home for academics.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Yo, Adrian!

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.