An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Discover the taste of mold.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

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

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

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

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

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

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.