A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Because there's no place like home.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

America's first federal monument.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

This is not your typical jungle gym.