From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

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

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

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

A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.