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Originally built in 1869, this castle is currently part of Felician University's campus.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows unique herbs in an urban oasis.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Home to a dizzying array of letterpress blocks with a rich history.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.