Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

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

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.