This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.

This moving cemetery sphere is a slowly rolling stone.

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

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

New York's oldest magic store.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

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

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.