Places Pluralvey Wants to Go

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Become a prohibition rebel.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

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

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

A glimpse at Walt Disney's vision for a "community of tomorrow," in miniature.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.