America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.