The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.

This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.

This Lady Liberty is the oldest replica of its kind outside the state of New York.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

A giant roll of mints marks the birthplace of one of America's most famous candy brands.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

A lost cemetery stands forgotten on a hilltop, known only to the older residents of Pomeroy.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.