Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

The murals have transformed a residential alley into a vibrant drive-through gallery.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.