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

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

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

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

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

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

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

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

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

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

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

New York's oldest magic store.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.