The first commercial nuclear power plant constructed on Long Island.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

This church houses the “incorrupt” body of its founding Bishop.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The only thing better than tubing down New Jersey's scenic Delaware River is doing so while eating a hot dog from a giant floating stand.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

The oldest Hindu temple complex in Nepal serves as the seat of Nepal’s national deity, Lord Pashupatinath.

Nailing a coin to this holy stump is just another way to ask the gods for relief from dental pain.