Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

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

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

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

A humble air museum located in an original World War II aircraft factory.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.