A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

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

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.