A bakery and variety store filled with an extensive taxidermy collection.

Colorful collection of antique musical oddities.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

The world's largest collection of mechanical puzzles is a cornucopia of analog bafflers.

This shop is named for a runaway elephant who smashed through its doors, stole some peanuts, and spent five days on the lam.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

Enjoy classic musicals with a home-cooked meal at this former staple of American social life.

Supremely flaky treats await at Amadou Ly’s boulangerie and patisserie.

A former Tibetan monk made a name for himself selling some of the best beef momos in New York.

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

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

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

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.