A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."