Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

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

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

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

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

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

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

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

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

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

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

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.