This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

Located inside a former record pressing plant, this recording studio pays homage to the techniques and gear of a bygone age.

This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.

An attack on a prominent Black attorney's house sparked a watershed moment in Nashville's civil rights movement.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

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

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.