The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

A collection of the specialized tools used to construct Japan’s beautiful architecture.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Become a prohibition rebel.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

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

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.