A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

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

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

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

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

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

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A popular Icelandic children's story comes to life inside this cave.