This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

New York City's only wildlife rehabilitation center treats more than 3,000 feathered and furry patients each year.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

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

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

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

The tiniest little stage in New York.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.