Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

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America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.