The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Folklore and history carved into Brittany's coast.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Home to 23 voluptuous and instantly lovable sculptures by one of Latin America's most celebrated artists.

Two identical statues by Fernando Botero, one blown to pieces in a terrorist bombing, the other donated as a gift for peace.

The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.