Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

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

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

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

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

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

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

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

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

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