This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

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

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

How a bat poo mine became a major Native American archaeological site—and connections to legendary red-haired giants.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.