Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

This dazzling Art Nouveau mansion is now home to the Modern Art Gallery Subotica.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

Four cars from the old system were once on display, but were removed in 2014.

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.