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

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

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

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

This San Diego museum, housed in a former Navy training facility, is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.