A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

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

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

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

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

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

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

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.