This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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