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

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

The highest natural point in New York City and all of the Atlantic coastal plain.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

A Grand Dame of the vaudeville circuit restored to its former glory.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Once the primary source of ice in this region during the mid-20th century.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.