Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

An old church full of restored Catholic statues is a makeup artist's labor of love.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.