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New York's oldest magic store.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A tragic mystery left this boy nameless for 65 years.

A curious building honoring past and current members of a historic musical comedy troupe.

A legendary boxing venue and ring featured in Rocky V.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

This memorial garden is the final resting place of many beloved pets including that of a famous explorer.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.