A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Volcanically heated hot springs.

Experiencing Guatemala's sensory-exploding church is a blunt reminder of European influence.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

Four cars from the old system were once on display, but were removed in 2014.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

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

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

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.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

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