The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

A museum of anything and everything Stooge.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

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

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

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

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.