This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

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.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

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

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

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

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

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

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.