Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.