The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

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

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

New York's oldest magic store.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.