Queens, New York
Ridgewood Reservoir
This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.
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Queens, New York
This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.
Pie Town, New Mexico
This popular pitstop lives up to its name.
Brooklyn, New York
This unique house, the only one of its kind in Brooklyn, was built as part of a real estate developer's showcase.
New York, New York
Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.
Brooklyn, New York
A series of fish plaques that are embedded in the malls of Ocean Parkway.
Woodstock, New York
Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.
Woodstock, New York
A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.
Kingston, New York
An abandoned dollhouse factory.
Boiceville, New York
Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.
Mount Tremper, New York
The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.
Phoenicia, New York
On the second floor of a small town library is an homage to angling and memorial to a great local fisherman.
Rhinebeck, New York
What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.
Corinne, Utah
Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.
Camden, New Jersey
The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.
Haddonfield, New Jersey
The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.
Moorestown, New Jersey
An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.
Rockport, Massachusetts
An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.
New York, New York
The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.
New York, New York
The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.
New York, New York
In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.
New York, New York
Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.
Tucson, Arizona
This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.
Brooklyn, New York
What was once a vast naval cemetery is now home to nesting birds and pollinating bees.