Places Lucy DiSanto Wants to Go

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

An Adirondacks museum housed in the former studio of Marcella Sembrich, the 19th century opera star most famous for her role of Mimi in "La Boheme."