The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.