The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Sharing the often-overlooked story of America's Black soldiers.

Get your cosplay on at Portland’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.