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

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

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.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

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

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

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

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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