A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

This secret garden has bloomed into London's most unique hub of urban creativity.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

You will not be able to miss this building.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.