This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

A "Bugseum" dedicated to all things insect-related resides behind a pest control company.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

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

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

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

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

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

New York's oldest magic store.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.