This former office building has been transformed into an immersive music venue and art space.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.