With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

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

An unlikely Transcendental Meditation haven in the American Heartland built around the ancient Vedic principles of balance and harmony.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

Hundreds of antiquated typewriters and office machinery show the technological evolution of business.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

A little known Colombian theme park of giant curiosities.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.