A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

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

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

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

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

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

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

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

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.