America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

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

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.