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About as hidden as can be, this specialty coffee shop is wedged between multi-story buildings at the end of a dark, skinny alleyway in Seoul.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

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

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

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

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

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.