For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

One of Mexico's least-visited archaeological sites is tucked away inside a theme park.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

The first commercial nuclear power plant constructed on Long Island.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

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

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

Designed by Horace Trumbauer in 1893, this Gothic-style castle is now a home for academics.

A museum celebrating rare American motorcycles where everything runs—and none of it quietly.

Thousands of bottles that have held everything from poison to perfume make up the collection of this small museum.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.