Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

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

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

Four distinctly unique gardens commemorate the POWs who lost their lives during the Sandakan Death Marches of 1945.

This vanilla farm serves its crops at an on-site café.

Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

A lush terraced garden full of thousands of colorful roses and mystical art.

The trunk of this 700-year-old tree measures more than 60 feet around, making it the oldest and largest baobab in Sri Lanka.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.