The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

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

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

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

Artifacts and exhibits tell the story of a small town that has punched above its weight and influenced history.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

This small-town museum is dedicated to the original western movie mega-star.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.