On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.