Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

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

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

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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

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

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.