While filling up your gas tank in eastern Kentucky, you just might stumble into this collection of country music memorabilia.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

Amid skyscrapers and traffic exists this unique aquatic ecosystem.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

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

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

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

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

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