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

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

This recipe is set in stone.

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

The Father of the Erie Canal has a magnificent grave marker that redefines the term "final resting place."

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

The helicopter that "Tricky Dick" absconded from the White House in on his last day in office.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.