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

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

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

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

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

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.