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

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

Become a prohibition rebel.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

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

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

An Adirondacks museum housed in the former studio of Marcella Sembrich, the 19th century opera star most famous for her role of Mimi in "La Boheme."

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

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.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.