Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt and a pirate.

Here be dragons.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.