New York, New York
The Hidden Art Deco Tunnel Underneath the New Yorker Hotel
The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.
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New York, New York
The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.
New York, New York
Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.
Willow Springs, Illinois
The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.
San Francisco, California
The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”
Santa Barbara, California
Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.
Stockholm, Sweden
This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.
New York, New York
One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.
Laconia, Greece
This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
North Charleston, South Carolina
This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.
Johns Island, South Carolina
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.
Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.
Washington, D.C.
This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.
Washington, D.C.
The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.
Reno, Nevada
The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.
Mistley, England
This ancient oak tree sheltered accused "witches" in the 17th century.
Bronx, New York
Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
Tulsk, Ireland
This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.
Grayling, Michigan
This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.
Douglas, Isle of Man
This hidden bridge is where local children leave gifts and messages for the island's fay folk.
Los Angeles, California
One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.