A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

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

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

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

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

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

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

No one knows who painted this mysterious mural in a Penn State basement.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.