Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

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

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.