A pair of trees near a Hong Kong shrine are said to grant wishes, but only the ones they hold on to.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

Creaky dinosaurs grow in the backroads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

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

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

The remains of an old sawmill, gristmill and the surrounding industry dating back to the 18th century.

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

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

WWII-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers. .

Hundreds of antiquated typewriters and office machinery show the technological evolution of business.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.

A humble air museum located in an original World War II aircraft factory.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.