This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

Beside some power panels, a plaque celebrates the history of an alternate world.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Discover the taste of mold.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.