New York stuff

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

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

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

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

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.