The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

These cabins mark the site where our 11th president was born (probably).

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

Thousands of bottles that have held everything from poison to perfume make up the collection of this small museum.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.