The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

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

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

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

The tiniest little stage in New York.

A cargo of beautiful music.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.