A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

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

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.