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New York, New York
Brazenhead Books
A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.
Places Vidiot Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New York, New York
Lower East Side Toy Company (The Back Room)
Become a prohibition rebel.
New York, New York
New York Federal Gold Vault
More gold than anywhere else, ever.
London, England
The Morpeth Arms
A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.
London, England
London's Original and All-Inspiring Coffee House
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
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London, England
The Buried Remains of Little Compton Street
The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.
London, England
Hunterian Museum
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
England
Dennis Severs' House
A historic house left in "dramatic still life."
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London, England
Lullaby Factory
Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.
London, England
Seven Noses of Soho
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
London, England
Traffic Light Tree
A student driver's nightmare.
London, England
Temple Church
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
London, England
The Sherlock Holmes Pub and Museum
This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
London, England
10 Adam Street
England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.
London, England
The Deadhouse
Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.
New York, New York
The Ramble Cave
Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.
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New York, New York
Museum of the American Gangster
This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.
New York, New York
The Museum of Interesting Things
A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.
New York, New York
MoMath - The Museum of Mathematics
A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.
New York, New York
The Treasures in the Trash Collection
A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.
New York, New York
Trinity Place Bank Vault Bar
This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.
New York, New York
Museum of Sex
A semi-scholarly approach to sex.
New York, New York
Mysterious Bookshop
The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.
