The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The world's longest known cave system.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.