Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

The world's largest rotating world.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

This monster fiberglass crustacean stands watch over the self-proclaimed "lobster capital of the world."

Iconic rock formations that allow for exploration during high or low tide.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

The largest axe on the planet contains a time capsule that seems like it may never be discovered.

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

One of the largest collections of carriages, buggies, and wagons in the world.