This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

Creaky dinosaurs grow in the backroads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.