The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

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

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

New York's oldest magic store.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.