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Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

A beautiful, historic location open to the public.

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.