This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

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

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

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

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.