Places thelibyandesert Wants to Go

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

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

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

A 9-story, poured concrete structure which was used as a glue factory with an indelible smell.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.