The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

The neighborhood surrounding the memorial was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in Louisiana.

A serene but haunting memorial to protective wetland lost, the absence of which directly damaged the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques