In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Become a prohibition rebel.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

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

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.