This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

Though a proud Texan, the 41st President of the United States started life in the suburbs of Boston.

This art display in Dedham honors a local fish, and is dedicated to the volunteers who restored the canal.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

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

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

A tiny town in an empty lot was the work of a local eight-year-old.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A museum dedicated to the least secret spy is actually an attempt to get Hollywood's attention.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.