Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.