A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

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

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.