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

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

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

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

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

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

New York's oldest magic store.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.