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The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.