A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

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

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

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

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

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

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.