Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

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

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

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

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

As state high-points-by-elevation go this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.