The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

This former psychiatric hospital was once one of the largest in Australia.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

This garden memorial marks the site where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by the Cleveland Police Department.

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

The Gunditjmara Aboriginal people of Australia began construction on this vast aquacultural complex 6,600 years ago.

Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

Both funky and traditional, it's the oldest of its kind in Indiana.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.