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.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

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 lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."