A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

A decorated war pigeon stands guard in eternal taxidermied rest at his alma mater.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Creaky dinosaurs grow in the backroads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.