This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

Three courses accompanied by Christian rock.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

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.

Here be dragons.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

The failure of one component toppled this entire bridge during rush hour.