The 606 is a decade in the making.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

New York's oldest magic store.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

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

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.