America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

The first neighborhood to implement the Garden City model in its suburban planning.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

Home of the golf club used by Alan Shepard on the moon, and more artifacts from the sport's history.

What appears to be an act of fruit vandalism is actually a cultural statement.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.