A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

Taking the 3D art experience far beyond blue and red glasses.

The magic's in the hole!

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

Haven for steampunks.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

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

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.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.