New York's oldest magic store.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

The most confusing clock in New York.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A crypt believed by many Congolese to be a center of black magic.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.