The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

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

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

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

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

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

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

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

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

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

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

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.