The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

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

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

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

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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

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

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