A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

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

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

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

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.