A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

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

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Discover the taste of mold.

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.