A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.

A tribute to the movie stars who fought to keep Beverly Hills separate from Los Angeles.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.

This is one really big nut.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.