The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A miniature city within a city, complete with traffic signs, signals, and streets to teach Baltimore's youth traffic safety laws.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.