One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

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

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

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

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

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.