Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

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

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

Hidden behind West Philadelphia rowhomes is a haven for migratory and local bird species both ordinary and rare.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

One of the oldest of its kind.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

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

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

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.