One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

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

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

Check your calendars; you might be attending a drive-in movie or sitting next to a fashion runway.

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

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.