Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The world's largest rotating world.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

"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."