The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

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

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.