First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

This recipe is set in stone.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

A simple midtown bar was once the home of a secretive and exclusive club staffed by "bunnies" under Hefner's strict rules.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.