A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

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

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

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

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

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

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