A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

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

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Become a prohibition rebel.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

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

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

The magic's in the hole!

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.