America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

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.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

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

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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