A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

This stunning waterfall is the backdrop to a site that has seen continuous human habitation for 250,000 years.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.