During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

Set sail on a small scale.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...