The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

Thousands of bottles that have held everything from poison to perfume make up the collection of this small museum.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

Here be dragons.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

The final resting place for the famed creator and narrator of "The Twilight Zone."

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.