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

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

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.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

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

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.