This love letter to Poland serves bracing dill pickle soup and plump pierogis.

A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."

This eye-catching sculpture of rural life seems a bit out of place at a suburban intersection in front of a car dealership.

The Aldie Gristmill was once the largest factory of its kind in Loudoun County.

A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.

A brass and marble scale model of the solar system embedded in the concrete.

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

These ruins of an octagonal stone school that was later used as an A.U.M.P. church exemplify a popular school design from the 1830s.

If you don't look closely, you might mistake this sculpture for just another passenger waiting at the airport.

This former wildlife sanctuary is being transformed into an art park.

One of the camera company's former manufacturing buildings is now a museum dedicated to its history.

These statues pay homage to the "green corridor" of parks and wetlands.

Out of a labyrinth of abandoned tunnels and stops, this Queens subway station is arguably the most mysterious—if it exists at all.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

A park in a small Pennsylvania town is home to an original sculpture by one of its native sons, legendary artist and activist Keith Haring.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.

A different kind of swan princess.

A unique collection of Western and Japanese-style graves.

The national headquarters of the dowser’s society founded in 1961.

This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.