One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

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.

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

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

One of the remaining markers of an era when Brooklyn and Flatbush were separate cities.

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.