This one-room museum is dedicated to Norwegian history and jokes.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.