New York, New York
The Secret Entrance to the Knickerbocker Hotel
An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.
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New York, New York
An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.
New York, New York
Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.
New York, New York
A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.
New York, New York
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
New York, New York
The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.
New York, New York
A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.
New York, New York
A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.
New York, New York
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.
Chicago, Illinois
The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.
Chicago, Illinois
Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.
Chicago, Illinois
A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.
Chicago, Illinois
A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois
The 606 is a decade in the making.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Albany, California
An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
New York, New York
Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.
New York, New York
Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.
New York, New York
Discover the taste of mold.
New York, New York
Become a prohibition rebel.
New York, New York
This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.