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Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

This airfield played a key role in both World War II and the Cold War.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

Successful artist residence program has filled this ranch with dozens of sculptures over the years.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.