Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Check your calendars; you might be attending a drive-in movie or sitting next to a fashion runway.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Become a prohibition rebel.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

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

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Skewer up Kangaroo.