The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The world's largest Our Lady of Guadalupe statue overlooks this Ohio sanctuary.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

These ornate manhole covers were used for a now-forgotten purpose.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

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

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

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

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.