An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This Upstate New York park squeezes a lot of history into its two-acre triangular space.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

Abandoned rock quarry now a haven for mountain bikers and hikers.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

A collection of the best toys ever made, The National Toy Hall of Fame is filled with kids, fun, and for some reason, a bird preserve.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.