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Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

A top-hatted bear is one of the more "normal" items in the Trundle collection.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Trundle Manor: House of Oddities

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

The Burnt Hill Stone Circle

Heath, Massachusetts

Burnt Hill Stone Circle

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Deerfield Massacre Mass Grave

Deerfield, Massachusetts

Deerfield Massacre Mass Grave

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

To Jane, My Wife.

Brooklyn, New York

The Tomb of Jane Griffith

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

Smiling Hogshead Ranch

Queens, New York

Smiling Hogshead Ranch

Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.

Cypress Hills Taxidermy Studio
Permanently Closed

Queens, New York

Cypress Hills Taxidermy Studio

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

Phil-Am Storefront

Queens, New York

Phil-Am Foods

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

The Queens Giant, all 133 ft. of her.

Queens, New York

The Alley Pond Giant

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

Lobby of the TWA Flight Center

Queens, New York

TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

"Welcome to Tromaville..."

Queens, New York

Troma Entertainment Inc.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Bayside Cemetery

Queens, New York

Bayside Cemetery

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

View from the Brooklyn Navy Yard location

Queens, New York

Brooklyn Grange Farms and Apiary

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

Valencia Movie House

Queens, New York

Valencia Movie House

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

Steinway Piano Factory

Queens, New York

Steinway Piano Factory

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

The Ganesh Temple of Queens

Queens, New York

The Ganesh Temple of Queens

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

 Looking northwest at abandoned southbound track of Rockaway Beach Branch.

Queens, New York

The Abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

Calvary Cemetery

Queens, New York

Calvary Cemetery

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Surreal Elevator

Queens, New York

Surreal Elevator

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Houdini's Grave

Queens, New York

Houdini's Grave

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

St. Raymond's Cemetery

Bronx, New York

St. Raymond’s Cemetery

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Carrie Chapman Catt's Grave

Bronx, New York

Carrie Chapman Catt's Grave

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

Banana Ripening Facility

Bronx, New York

Banana Ripening Facility

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

The Grotto at St. Lucy's

Bronx, New York

Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto at St. Lucy's Church

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

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