New York, New York
Lexington Candy Shop
The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.
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New York, New York
The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.
Staten Island, New York
Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.
Staten Island, New York
In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.
Staten Island, New York
Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.
Bridgehampton, New York
A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.
Sister Bay, Wisconsin
Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.
Washington, D.C.
Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.
Brooklyn, New York
A wooden rollercoaster that still delivers a thrill.
Holmdel, New Jersey
The real-life ‘Severance’ office building.
Holmdel, New Jersey
This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.
New York, New York
New York City's first Modernist house.
Chicago, Illinois
Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.
Middleton, Wisconsin
More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.
Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
New Hyde Park, New York
This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cat art as far as the eye can see.
Huara, Chile
One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.
East Sussex, England
This mysterious chalk figure of a horse has been recreated and restored for more than a century.
Wilmington, England
This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.
Bratton, England
A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.
Quemado, New Mexico
In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.