Every winter, dozens of otherworldly ice structures sprout up from a rigged up artesian well.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

A cargo of beautiful music.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

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.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

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

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”