An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

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

Over 300 wood sculptures depicting characters from Slavic, Greek and Western folk tales fill this magical garden.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This animatronic Christmas village within an industrial park creates a whimsical juxtaposition.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.