A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

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

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.