This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

New York's oldest magic store.

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

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

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

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.