A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

This ancient village is peopled by a religious minority and is still using some of the same materials it was built with thousands of years ago.

Hidden beneath a washing machine in a fake kibbutz, this secret bullet factory has been preserved as a museum.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.