A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A "Bugseum" dedicated to all things insect-related resides behind a pest control company.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

Seven golden statues rise into the sky from sculptor Victor Victori's New Jersey front lawn.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.