A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

In Cold Spring, New York, a shrine containing Godzilla and an assortment of plastic dinosaurs stands dedicated to a teenager who died in a car accident in 1996.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

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

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

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