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Uprooted outside of an unrelated church, this innocuous boulder showed up one day outside the gates of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, moved their by persons trying to honor a 400 year old folktale. The legend differs in the telling but a couple of versions seem to be...

Located in Pittsburgh’s historic St. John the Baptist Church, a deconsecrated but still beautifully ornate building, The Church Brew Works has turned a former holy sanctuary into a hip brewery, only giving shelter to brewdogs. Originally built in 1902, St. John the...

The Old Farmers’ Ball began as a dance competition in the home of Bascom Lamar Lunsford, a native of Madison County, North Carolina who traveled through the mountains as a fruit tree salesman, collecting and recording the folk songs he’d grown up with. Lunsford soon...

Donated to the University of Manchester in 1902, the Godlee Observatory has lived through war, weather, and neglect despite being made of little more than wood and papier-mâché. The tiny, historic observatory perched atop one of the gothic buildings on the campus of...

Most art is meant not to be touched, and most playgrounds are meant to crawled all over so they don’t immediately seem like a great combination but Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s Playscapes manages to make severe modern art out of what would otherwise be a...

Tucked away in the densely forested mountains of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala lies an idyllic limestone paradise that despite the grueling hours of off road forging it takes to get there is one of the most beautiful of the world’s hidden natural gems. Virtually inaccessible to...

The Appellate Division Courthouse in Madison Square is a highly ornate building. Designed at the height of the Beaux-arts movement by James Brown Lord in 1896, it is adorned with marble sculptures of notable law givers, Moses, Lycurgus, and Solon among them. Some...

Judging from its swish-sounding name, the New Brighton Athletic Club brings to mind the sort of exclusive, private member’s racquet clubs found in midtown Manhattan. In reality, it was one of the seediest, deadliest dance halls and drinking dens of the Lower East Side, the...

Off an otherwise unremarkable exit on US Highway 36, in the town of Clarence, Missouri is what seems to be a working gas station from another time, perfectly preserved, complete with gleaming vintage cars at the pumps. But on closer inspection, the station is no longer in service...

The multi-storied home at 481 Laurel Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is one of three sites in the city that is dedicated to the late, great author F. Scott Fitzgerald who penned such American literary classics as The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise.  In...