The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

One car at a time please.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

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

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

New York's oldest magic store.

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.