This sprawling collection hides many charms.

Made from local Irish moss, this pie is served only in Prince Edward Island's potato museum.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

The only sea in the world that has no land boundary.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

Local legend holds that if you can make it up this steep cobblestone stairway without taking a breath, you'll have wish come true.

After 400 years of being closed to the public, this monastery's underground tunnels and secret garden are now a museum.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

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

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Become a prohibition rebel.