The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.