Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

A quick trip around the globe through an amazing miniature exhibit.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.

A Bed-Stuy gymnasium that hosts expansive raves, performances, dance parties, and more.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

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

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

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

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

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

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

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

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.