The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

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

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

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

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

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

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.