This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

A mosaic made of materials gathered from this Brooklyn community adorns the walls of this tunnel.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

Built in the 1920s, this co-op in the Bronx feels more like an Italian villa than a typical New York apartment building.

This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

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

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin's lost medieval wall.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.