A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Traversing these canyons, visitors can take in stunning views and glimpses of the region's history.

A 250 million-year-old rock formation has earned a rather unique nickname.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.