This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

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

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

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