Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

The mounds at this site were reconstructed with the help of archaeologists and historians.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

This 35-foot-tall hamburger-toting chef is said to be the largest bobblehead in the world.

New York City's first Modernist house.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.