Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

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

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

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

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

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