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This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

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

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

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

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Become a prohibition rebel.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.