This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

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

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

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

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

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

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.