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

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

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.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

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

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.