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

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

Though it was originally dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, Baphuon was converted to a Buddhist temple in the 15th century, complete with a massive hidden statue.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

A replica of the famous memorial statue at the Normandy American Cemetery hides in an office building in downtown D.C.

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.