Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

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

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.