This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

Seven golden statues rise into the sky from sculptor Victor Victori's New Jersey front lawn.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

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

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

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.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.