The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

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

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

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

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

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

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

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

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

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

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

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

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

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

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.