An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.