This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

This house turned museum chronicles the life and work of Richard Neutra.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

One of Los Angeles's first murals once vibrantly depicted the dangers of United States imperialism.

The first all glass and steel residence in the United States.