Places roboticanarchy Wants to Go

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

The oldest library in Scotland was built from the remains of a church to hold a churchman's library.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

These mysterious religious carvings were once thought to be thousands of years old but are actually the work of modern eccentric.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

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

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

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

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

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

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.