Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Because there's no place like home.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

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

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

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

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

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

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

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

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

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.