Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
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Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Heath, Massachusetts
A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.
Brooklyn, New York
A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.
Queens, New York
Guerilla gardeners reclaimed this abandoned railroad land literally putting down roots.
Queens, New York
One of the last taxidermists in New York City.
Queens, New York
Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.
Queens, New York
The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.
Queens, New York
This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
Queens, New York
The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.
Queens, New York
One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.
Queens, New York
Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.
Queens, New York
The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.
Queens, New York
Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.
Queens, New York
This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.
Queens, New York
A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.
Queens, New York
Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.
Queens, New York
Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.
Queens, New York
The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.
Bronx, New York
Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.
Bronx, New York
An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.
Bronx, New York
Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.
Bronx, New York
Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.