This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.