An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

This convenience store-turned-brewpub serves up inventive Indian cuisine and a wide selection of beers.

This Austin music venue is an homage to a legendary figure in the local blues scene.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

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

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.