A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

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

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

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

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.