A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.