This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

An interim housing alternative to FEMA trailers that is designed for densely populated areas during recovery and rebuilding following a natural disaster.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

New York City's only wildlife rehabilitation center treats more than 3,000 feathered and furry patients each year.

After traveling the world, one of the last remaining fully-rigged three masted iron-hulled cargo ship in the world found its home in New York.

Before this area was filled with luxury homes, it was a movie star's 160-acre ranch and a gangster's hideout.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Sculptor Vadim Bora's bronze felines pay playful homage to architectural features no longer extant along Asheville's Wall Street.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

The system of air guns are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.

When this monument to Slovenia's national poet was erected, it's said to have sparked the ire of nearby church authorities.

Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.