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

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

A simple midtown bar was once the home of a secretive and exclusive club staffed by "bunnies" under Hefner's strict rules.

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

Test your business savvy and play the market for cocktails at this stock exchange-inspired watering hole.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

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

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

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

The tiniest little stage in New York.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Skewer up Kangaroo.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

These ornate manhole covers were used for a now-forgotten purpose.

The saddest little diner in New York.

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.