A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

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

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

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

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Come stay at a live-in art installation.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.