The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

A small token of gratitude from freezing cold journalists who were given a warm haven while covering JFK's inauguration.

Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

Seven golden statues rise into the sky from sculptor Victor Victori's New Jersey front lawn.

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

Memorial built in 1922 in remembrance of WWI casualties.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

The only remaining piece of hull of the most decorated US ship of WWII is this giant name plate.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.