The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.