Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

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

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Yo, Adrian!

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.