The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

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