This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

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

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

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

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

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

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.