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This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list.

The mysterious image is believed to show Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, in a beautiful blue dress.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

A carriage house converted into what resembles an 11th-century English manor house

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

The second largest maple syrup producer in the U.S. runs a high-tech operation.

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

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.

A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

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

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

An elaborate memorial to a man local legend says died of a broken heart.

An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.