A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

The man who voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and more has a headstone reading, "That's all, folks!"

Because there's no place like home.

A tiny rock climber scales the headstone of a beloved director.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

An ode to filmmaker George A. Romero, who used the mall to film an iconic horror movie.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

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

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.