This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

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

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Secret Swing.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A swaggering, monumental souvenir of the most extravagant party Montreal’s ever thrown.

This exuberantly curated landscape is one of the largest sculpture gardens in Canada.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.