Museum of the Moving Image

Once the home of Paramount Pictures’ east coast HQ, this super-fun, three-story museum recently received a $65-million renovation, adding a 66,500-sq-ft high-tech extension to its already substantial space. The museum has a new theater and screening room (and an outdoor screening space) plus more galleries to house the museum’s 130,000 movie artifacts, which include Robert De Niro’s mohawk wig from Taxi Driver and Chewbacca’s head (sorry, kids, he’s not real). Another fun part is the sound-edit room, where you can re-dub the ‘we’re not in Kansas anymore’ scene from The Wizard of Oz. There are lots of massive, early cameras, including a camera that records your goofy antics as a flip-book (which you can then purchase as a souvenir). A downstairs area has free arcade games and screens films on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.