Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

A historical home in upstate New York honors the work of John W. Jones, a formerly enslaved man who was a major agent for the Underground Railroad.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.