Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This Upstate New York park squeezes a lot of history into its two-acre triangular space.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

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

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.