Staten Island, New York
Booze History Museum
Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.
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Staten Island, New York
Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.
Staten Island, New York
This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.
Brooklyn, New York
A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.
Brooklyn, New York
This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.
Brooklyn, New York
Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.
New York, New York
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
New York, New York
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
New York, New York
Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.
New York, New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
Brooklyn, New York
Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.
New York, New York
Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.
New York, New York
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
New York, New York
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.
Krakow, Poland
In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.
Krakow, Poland
Learn the fine art of making a centuries-old treat at this hands-on food museum.
Krakow, Poland
Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.
Hamburg, Germany
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Paris, France
A letterpress workshop committed to the art of printing, with unique and creative designs.
Paris, France
Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.
Paris, France
The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.
Paris, France
Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.
Paris, France
An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.