This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

An underwater city for the dead.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

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

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

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

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

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."