A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

New York's oldest magic store.

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

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

This Boy Scout retreat acted as "Friday the 13th"'s original Camp Crystal Lake.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.