The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

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

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.