A curious cone-shaped structure made of wire and covered with antlers.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

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

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

The debris forms a solemn memorial to those who died in a 1963 accident.

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

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

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.