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Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

For the last eight decades, this curious shop has been ridding Atlanta of bad juju.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Artifacts and exhibits tell the story of a small town that has punched above its weight and influenced history.

A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."

Vibrant paintings stretch across 600 feet of derelict railway.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.