After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

This Metabolist, retro-futuristic residential complex resembles a cyberpunk space colony established on Earth.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

This giant rock arrived at this quiet park thousands of years ago on the back of a massive glacier.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.