This art display in Dedham honors a local fish, and is dedicated to the volunteers who restored the canal.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.