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The Geographic Center of NYC is located on a traffic meridian on Queens Boulevard.

Queens, New York

Geographic Center of New York City

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

A visitor admires the mural on the ramp where punk was born.

Queens, New York

'The Ramp'

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

Installation view of the exhibition 'Roadside Attraction' at the Self-Taught Genius Gallery.
Permanently Closed

Queens, New York

Self-Taught Genius Gallery

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

Vander Ende—Onderdonk House from Onderdonk Avenue.

Queens, New York

Vander Ende-Onderdonk House

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church

Queens, New York

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

Welling Court Mural Project

Queens, New York

The Welling Court Mural Project

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

The Queens Giant, all 133 ft. of her.

Queens, New York

The Alley Pond Giant

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

La Guardia's Art Deco Marine Air Terminal

Queens, New York

La Guardia's Art Deco Marine Air Terminal

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

Valencia Movie House

Queens, New York

Valencia Movie House

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

"Welcome to Tromaville..."

Queens, New York

Troma Entertainment Inc.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

The Louis Armstrong House

Queens, New York

Louis Armstrong House

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

The street sign made to look like Scrabble tiles.

Queens, New York

The Birthplace of Scrabble

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

 Looking northwest at abandoned southbound track of Rockaway Beach Branch.

Queens, New York

The Abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

Calvary Cemetery

Queens, New York

Calvary Cemetery

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Central Park

Queens, New York

Panorama of the City of New York

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Abandoned fort ruins

Queens, New York

Fort Totten

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

(Press photo)

Davis Station, Antarctica

Antarctic Sculpture Garden

Antarctica's only sculpture garden, it has art and penguins, but no plants in sight.

The grave of Scott, Wilson and Bowers

Antarctica

The Snow Tomb of Captain Robert Falcon Scott

The bodies of some early polar pioneers are still buried beneath the harsh snows of the Antarctic.

Artist's conception of the "Cryobot" and "Hydrobot."

Antarctica

Lake Vostok

Largest sub-glacial lake ever discovered.

The Southern Pole of Inaccessibility Station covered by snow. (Wikimedia Commons)

Antarctica

Southern Pole of Inaccessibility

Considered the most remote point in the entire world.

Leningradskaya

Antarctica

Leningradskaya

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

A frozen ladder leads to an escape hatch.

Antarctica

South Pole Ice Tunnels

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

Port Lockroy Museum & Post Office

Antarctica

Antarctic Exploration Museum & Post Office

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

Vernadsky Station

Antarctica

The Bar at Vernadsky Research Base

One of the world's southernmost bars.

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