The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.