This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.