Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

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

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

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.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.