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A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Brooklyn’s wildest restaurant is serving ice cream in snail shells and marrow bones.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

A bizarre statue of a Buddhist goddess made from 20,000 insects.

A complex of ancient Buddhist rock-cut caves with a large, well preserved prayer hall.

A sacred place for ascetic training, set in a honeycomb-walled cliffside cave deep in the woods.

This temple is home to a group of Buddha statues made from thousands of bones and ashes of the deceased.

An eerie cluster of medieval cave-like tombs carved out of a cliff, hidden in a historic mountain pass.

Home to 800-year-old zen basin, a 400-year-old pilgrim’s path, and a century-old industrial grotto.

A relatively young Buddhist temple on hilltop, dedicated to a statue relocated from Mount Atago.

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

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

This Hindu temple in suburban New Jersey is the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

This sensational silver temple is the product of centuries of metalworking.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

A "Bugseum" dedicated to all things insect-related resides behind a pest control company.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.