During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

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

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

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.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.