A collection of the best toys ever made, The National Toy Hall of Fame is filled with kids, fun, and for some reason, a bird preserve.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.