This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

This museum pays homage to a device that precipitated a watershed moment in Finger Lakes food production.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Amid skyscrapers and traffic exists this unique aquatic ecosystem.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.

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

The only tower of an aerial tramway standing over a ski-lift.