This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

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

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

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

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

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

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.