This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

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

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

Whether you're up or down, the Elevator Museum is worth a stop.

Townhouse facade doubles as an RMS Titanic Memorial.

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

There's a piece of New York City transportation history hidden in plain sight at a Manhattan subway stop.

The saddest little diner in New York.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

The first commercial nuclear power plant constructed on Long Island.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

This historic church with a connection to "Uncle Sam" is now a fraternity house.