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

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

New York's oldest magic store.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Launchpad for the US military’s dead mouse operation to battle millions of snakes.

Located on Guam's south shore, this small cave is named for an ancient and powerful Chamorro Chief.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

A beautiful waterway tucked in the corner of a power plant.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.