Queens, New York
Home for Retired Playground Animals
A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.
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Queens, New York
A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
Union, Connecticut
This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.
Kingston, New York
Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, New York
An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.
Queens, New York
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
New York, New York
For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."
Wildwood, New Jersey
Vintage cars and motorcycles race for glory in a throwback motorsport celebration on the Jersey shore.
Gallitzin, Pennsylvania
A hidden piece of Altoona's railroad history in a long-forgotten abandoned town.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.
New York, New York
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.
Houston, Texas
At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
Eureka, California
Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.
Seattle, Washington
Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.
Chicago, Illinois
The world's only known button museum.
Herriman, Utah
A replica that won't float away.
Seattle, Washington
The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
This is one really big nut.
Sparta, Wisconsin
These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.
San Diego, California
Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Bronx, New York
The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.