This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

My name is Melissa Lee and originally I'm from Hastings on Hudson, New York.

A small town, I suppose you have to make your own fun.

Everybody makes their own fun.

If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun, it's entertainment.

I guess the big activity would be walking downtown after school and you could hang out by the wall and watch people that you knew go by.

So not a lot going on in Hastings on Hudson, New York.

It's about two square miles, but it's right outside New York City, so it it's sort of like you know there's a lot out there

to do but there's not actually a lot to do right where I was.

Besides people watching, Melissa and her friends would also collect geodes.

We did collect geodes, yes.

You know about geodes, right?

Break your own geodes.

The rocks are brown and lumpy on the outside,

but when you smash them apart,

inside would be some crystal on structures.

And you have no idea from the outside what you're getting.

So you kind of have to take a chance on it,

that inside you've got something great.

Usually Melissa and her friend Liz would buy a few geodes at the store downtown and take him home and smash him apart with a hammer.

But one day when Melissa was 13, we were too impatient and we just had to know what was inside.

There was a parking lot nearby

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