The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

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

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.