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

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

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

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

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

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.