One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head as he died can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Beautiful views of the surrounding hills and birds of prey can be found at this sanctuary.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.