Places aeholmquist Wants to Go

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

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

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

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

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

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

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

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.