The famous author's cottage hideaway.

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.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

The timeworn "Yankee Stadium" of the fastest game in the world isn't going anywhere.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.