A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

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

An ideal wedding spot that is almost too ideal.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.