This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

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

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.