New York, New York
Hess Triangle
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
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New York, New York
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.
Budapest, Hungary
The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.
Budapest, Hungary
Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.
Guadalupe, California
Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.
Santa Maria, California
Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.
Los Angeles, California
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.
New York, New York
A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.
New York, New York
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
New York, New York
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
New York, New York
Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.
New York, New York
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
Borrego Springs, California
Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.
Queens, New York
Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.
Los Angeles, California
A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.
Santa Monica, California
Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.
Los Angeles, California
In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.
Los Angeles, California
A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.
New York, New York
New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.
Agua Dulce, California
Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.
Solvang, California
Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.
Bellerose, New York
The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.
Palos Verdes Estates, California
Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.