The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.

The former home of a disgraced local priest now hosts a mysterious secret supper club.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.