Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

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

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

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

Creaky dinosaurs grow in the backroads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

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

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.