The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

The storied steakhouse is the last in a long line of Lebanese-owned supper clubs in Tulsa.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

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.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.