A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

The loneliest island in New York.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Become a prohibition rebel.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The best-preserved ancient theater in the world.

Explore the odd assortment of items that have washed up on the beaches of Plum Island.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.