A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.