Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A chessmaster's dream destination.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

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

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

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

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.