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The most confusing clock in New York.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

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

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.