A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

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

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

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

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

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

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

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.