Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

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

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.