A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

The lynching and burial site of America's first train robbers.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.