A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

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

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.