Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

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

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

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

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

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

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.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

A collection of the best toys ever made, The National Toy Hall of Fame is filled with kids, fun, and for some reason, a bird preserve.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.