This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Behind these delicious arepas lies a true New York success story.

How a century-old glass factory in Queens became a concert venue and arts center.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

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

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Yo, Adrian!

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.