A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

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

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

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

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

The most confusing clock in New York.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

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

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.