Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

What appears to be an act of fruit vandalism is actually a cultural statement.

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.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

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

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.