People leave coins atop an unusual grave marker in one of Scotland's oldest burial grounds.

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

The longest step street in the city.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

The drawbridge used in the filming of the movie 'Annie' has been in the open position as it was in the movie for decades.

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.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

This suburban enclave is home to a very unique art exhibit.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.