A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

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

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

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

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

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

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

The loneliest island in New York.

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

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

A cargo of beautiful music.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.