Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

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

The most confusing clock in New York.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

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

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.