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An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

The tiniest little stage in New York.

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

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

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

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.