Once called Winthrop Park in 1889, home to a decidedly sexy tribute to the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

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.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

The world's largest Holstein cow.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.