Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

This recipe is set in stone.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

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

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.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

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

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.