A quick trip around the globe through an amazing miniature exhibit.

The saddest little diner in New York.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.