This eclectic collection documents the wild legacies of "America's Wickedest Street."

This was once the home of Gahan's Saloon, Denver's most storied speakeasy.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

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

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

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

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

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.

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