The loneliest island in New York.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

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

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

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

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.