This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

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

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.