A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

This small island was the first National Wildlife Refuge ever created in the United States.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

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

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.