Vintage cars and motorcycles race for glory in a throwback motorsport celebration on the Jersey shore.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

A headstone tells the sad story of a lost little boy and his pet dog.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.