The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

New York's oldest magic store.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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