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

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.