Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

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

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

The model behind the iconic 3D test model.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.