The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

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

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.