The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.