Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.