The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Amazingly, this old machine within the Resorts Casino still functions.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

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

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.