The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

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

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

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

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.