This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

One patriotic farmer's ode to the 9/11 tragedy remains even after the farm changed hands.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.